diff --git a/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c b/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c
index 405f46ba490e50df3635f125fb24a40e5b984899..2a2e2d8ddee52e0e0473864e4e05cbd5215a37b5 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c
@@ -1859,11 +1859,9 @@ ff_layout_encode_layoutreturn(struct pnfs_layout_hdr *lo,
 	start = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 4);
 	BUG_ON(!start);
 
-	if (ff_layout_encode_ioerr(flo, xdr, args))
-		goto out;
-
+	ff_layout_encode_ioerr(flo, xdr, args);
 	ff_layout_encode_iostats(flo, xdr, args);
-out:
+
 	*start = cpu_to_be32((xdr->p - start - 1) * 4);
 	dprintk("%s: Return\n", __func__);
 }