diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index e9baba7b241f..f0646fb24371 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -3430,8 +3430,6 @@ static void *raid1_takeover(struct mddev *mddev)
 		mddev->new_chunk_sectors = 0;
 		conf = setup_conf(mddev);
 		if (!IS_ERR(conf)) {
-			/* Array must appear to be quiesced */
-			conf->array_frozen = 1;
 			mddev_clear_unsupported_flags(mddev,
 				UNSUPPORTED_MDDEV_FLAGS);
 		}