diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 6431c8e85661..b297eaf43f43 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1337,6 +1337,16 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	swp_entry_t swap;
 	pgoff_t index;
 
+	/*
+	 * Our capabilities prevent regular writeback or sync from ever calling
+	 * shmem_writepage; but a stacking filesystem might use ->writepage of
+	 * its underlying filesystem, in which case tmpfs should write out to
+	 * swap only in response to memory pressure, and not for the writeback
+	 * threads or sync.
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!wbc->for_reclaim))
+		goto redirty;
+
 	/*
 	 * If /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled is "always" or
 	 * "force", drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c gets huge pages,
@@ -1357,18 +1367,6 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	if (!total_swap_pages)
 		goto redirty;
 
-	/*
-	 * Our capabilities prevent regular writeback or sync from ever calling
-	 * shmem_writepage; but a stacking filesystem might use ->writepage of
-	 * its underlying filesystem, in which case tmpfs should write out to
-	 * swap only in response to memory pressure, and not for the writeback
-	 * threads or sync.
-	 */
-	if (!wbc->for_reclaim) {
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);	/* Still happens? Tell us about it! */
-		goto redirty;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * This is somewhat ridiculous, but without plumbing a SWAP_MAP_FALLOC
 	 * value into swapfile.c, the only way we can correctly account for a