diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c
index 7ddf46b7ce43..ded184edb50f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c
@@ -2064,8 +2064,7 @@ int osc_build_rpc(const struct lu_env *env, struct client_obd *cli,
 
 		if (oa)
 			OBDO_FREE(oa);
-		if (pga)
-			kfree(pga);
+		kfree(pga);
 		/* this should happen rarely and is pretty bad, it makes the
 		 * pending list not follow the dirty order */
 		while (!list_empty(ext_list)) {