diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index 88497bff1135..ba32adaeefdd 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -5890,18 +5890,6 @@ static void bfq_finish_requeue_request(struct request *rq)
 	struct bfq_queue *bfqq = RQ_BFQQ(rq);
 	struct bfq_data *bfqd;
 
-	/*
-	 * Requeue and finish hooks are invoked in blk-mq without
-	 * checking whether the involved request is actually still
-	 * referenced in the scheduler. To handle this fact, the
-	 * following two checks make this function exit in case of
-	 * spurious invocations, for which there is nothing to do.
-	 *
-	 * First, check whether rq has nothing to do with an elevator.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(!(rq->rq_flags & RQF_ELVPRIV)))
-		return;
-
 	/*
 	 * rq either is not associated with any icq, or is an already
 	 * requeued request that has not (yet) been re-inserted into
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.h b/block/blk-mq-sched.h
index 126021fc3a11..e81ca1bf6e10 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static inline void blk_mq_sched_requeue_request(struct request *rq)
 	struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
 	struct elevator_queue *e = q->elevator;
 
-	if (e && e->type->ops.requeue_request)
+	if ((rq->rq_flags & RQF_ELVPRIV) && e && e->type->ops.requeue_request)
 		e->type->ops.requeue_request(rq);
 }