diff --git a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
index f53c313ab6e4..38adadb936dc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
@@ -1169,11 +1169,14 @@ int btrfs_quota_enable(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 			}
 			if (ret > 0) {
 				/*
-				 * Shouldn't happen, but in case it does we
-				 * don't need to do the btrfs_next_item, just
-				 * continue.
+				 * Shouldn't happen because the key should still
+				 * be there (return 0), but in case it does it
+				 * means we have reached the end of the tree -
+				 * there are no more leaves with items that have
+				 * a key greater than or equals to @found_key,
+				 * so just stop the search loop.
 				 */
-				continue;
+				break;
 			}
 		}
 		ret = btrfs_next_item(tree_root, path);