3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[ Upstream commit 06539d3071067ff146a9bffd1c801fa56d290909 ]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/socket.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c

@@ -886,9 +886,6 @@ static ssize_t sock_splice_read(struct f
 static struct sock_iocb *alloc_sock_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb,
 					 struct sock_iocb *siocb)
 {
-	if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb))
-		BUG();
-
 	siocb->kiocb = iocb;
 	iocb->private = siocb;
 	return siocb;