diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index b7104a55ae64..851924fa5170 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3043,18 +3043,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_swap_account(swp_entry_t entry,
 	if (swap_cgroup_cmpxchg(entry, old_id, new_id) == old_id) {
 		mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(from, false);
 		mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(to, true);
-		/*
-		 * This function is only called from task migration context now.
-		 * It postpones page_counter and refcount handling till the end
-		 * of task migration(mem_cgroup_clear_mc()) for performance
-		 * improvement. But we cannot postpone css_get(to)  because if
-		 * the process that has been moved to @to does swap-in, the
-		 * refcount of @to might be decreased to 0.
-		 *
-		 * We are in attach() phase, so the cgroup is guaranteed to be
-		 * alive, so we can just call css_get().
-		 */
-		css_get(&to->css);
 		return 0;
 	}
 	return -EINVAL;