diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index f2c38f5ff6e2..e80304e4f16a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -5362,9 +5362,6 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 
 	if (is_bad_inode(inode))
 		goto no_delete;
-	/* do we really want it for ->i_nlink > 0 and zero btrfs_root_refs? */
-	if (!special_file(inode->i_mode))
-		btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, 0, (u64)-1);
 
 	btrfs_free_io_failure_record(BTRFS_I(inode), 0, (u64)-1);