diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index c17005e73974..6106a5c7ed44 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1051,20 +1051,23 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 				}
  			}
 
-			if (nr_to_write > 0)
+			if (nr_to_write > 0) {
 				nr_to_write--;
-			else if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
-				/*
-				 * We stop writing back only if we are not
-				 * doing integrity sync. In case of integrity
-				 * sync we have to keep going because someone
-				 * may be concurrently dirtying pages, and we
-				 * might have synced a lot of newly appeared
-				 * dirty pages, but have not synced all of the
-				 * old dirty pages.
-				 */
-				done = 1;
-				break;
+				if (nr_to_write == 0 &&
+				    wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
+					/*
+					 * We stop writing back only if we are
+					 * not doing integrity sync. In case of
+					 * integrity sync we have to keep going
+					 * because someone may be concurrently
+					 * dirtying pages, and we might have
+					 * synced a lot of newly appeared dirty
+					 * pages, but have not synced all of the
+					 * old dirty pages.
+					 */
+					done = 1;
+					break;
+				}
 			}
 
 			if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {