diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index f87f9bd1edff..f29a90fde619 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -386,19 +386,9 @@ static int ocfs2_read_locked_inode(struct inode *inode,
 	u32 generation = 0;
 
 	status = -EINVAL;
-	if (inode == NULL || inode->i_sb == NULL) {
-		mlog(ML_ERROR, "bad inode\n");
-		return status;
-	}
 	sb = inode->i_sb;
 	osb = OCFS2_SB(sb);
 
-	if (!args) {
-		mlog(ML_ERROR, "bad inode args\n");
-		make_bad_inode(inode);
-		return status;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * To improve performance of cold-cache inode stats, we take
 	 * the cluster lock here if possible.