diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 9530a333d302..6346876c97ea 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1788,8 +1788,7 @@ static int btrfs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 		}
 
 		if (fs_info->fs_devices->missing_devices >
-		     fs_info->num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures &&
-		    !(*flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+		     fs_info->num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures) {
 			btrfs_warn(fs_info,
 				"too many missing devices, writeable remount is not allowed");
 			ret = -EACCES;