diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 909450414c67cf192c952cdd923cf4190cae7254..10415ddfcb420e33f8597adc2f55091e2323d228 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -1541,11 +1541,12 @@ static void sync_request_write(mddev_t *mddev, r10bio_t *r10_bio)
 			if (j == vcnt)
 				continue;
 			mddev->resync_mismatches += r10_bio->sectors;
+			if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_CHECK, &mddev->recovery))
+				/* Don't fix anything. */
+				continue;
 		}
-		if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_CHECK, &mddev->recovery))
-			/* Don't fix anything. */
-			continue;
-		/* Ok, we need to write this bio
+		/* Ok, we need to write this bio, either to correct an
+		 * inconsistency or to correct an unreadable block.
 		 * First we need to fixup bv_offset, bv_len and
 		 * bi_vecs, as the read request might have corrupted these
 		 */