diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c
index 6ac8c54b44c7..85ca000a0564 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c
@@ -1043,9 +1043,7 @@ static void bm_page_io_async(struct drbd_bm_aio_ctx *ctx, int page_nr) __must_ho
 	bio = bio_alloc_bioset(device->ldev->md_bdev, 1, op, GFP_NOIO,
 			&drbd_md_io_bio_set);
 	bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = on_disk_sector;
-	/* bio_add_page of a single page to an empty bio will always succeed,
-	 * according to api.  Do we want to assert that? */
-	bio_add_page(bio, page, len, 0);
+	__bio_add_page(bio, page, len, 0);
 	bio->bi_private = ctx;
 	bio->bi_end_io = drbd_bm_endio;