* become available for writeback. Otherwise
                 * we'll just busyloop.
                 */
-               if (!list_empty(&wb->b_more_io))  {
-                       trace_writeback_wait(wb, work);
-                       inode = wb_inode(wb->b_more_io.prev);
-                       spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-                       spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
-                       /* This function drops i_lock... */
-                       inode_sleep_on_writeback(inode);
-                       spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
-               }
+               trace_writeback_wait(wb, work);
+               inode = wb_inode(wb->b_more_io.prev);
+               spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+               spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
+               /* This function drops i_lock... */
+               inode_sleep_on_writeback(inode);
+               spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
        }
        spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
        blk_finish_plug(&plug);