diff --git a/chunk-recover.c b/chunk-recover.c
index 0dec7d98..7aac8482 100644
--- a/chunk-recover.c
+++ b/chunk-recover.c
@@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ static int rebuild_sys_array(struct recover_control *rc,
 		key.type = BTRFS_CHUNK_ITEM_KEY;
 		key.offset = chunk_rec->offset;
 
-		ret = btrfs_add_system_chunk(NULL, root, &key, chunk,
+		ret = btrfs_add_system_chunk(root, &key, chunk,
 				btrfs_chunk_item_size(num_stripes));
 		free(chunk);
 		if (ret)
diff --git a/volumes.c b/volumes.c
index d87fd70e..59670c00 100644
--- a/volumes.c
+++ b/volumes.c
@@ -684,8 +684,7 @@ out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int btrfs_add_system_chunk(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
-			   struct btrfs_root *root,
+int btrfs_add_system_chunk(struct btrfs_root *root,
 			   struct btrfs_key *key,
 			   struct btrfs_chunk *chunk, int item_size)
 {
@@ -1078,7 +1077,7 @@ again:
 	BUG_ON(ret);
 
 	if (type & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_SYSTEM) {
-		ret = btrfs_add_system_chunk(trans, chunk_root, &key,
+		ret = btrfs_add_system_chunk(chunk_root, &key,
 				    chunk, btrfs_chunk_item_size(num_stripes));
 		BUG_ON(ret);
 	}
diff --git a/volumes.h b/volumes.h
index 18978a8d..699b0bae 100644
--- a/volumes.h
+++ b/volumes.h
@@ -230,8 +230,7 @@ int btrfs_scan_one_device(int fd, const char *path,
 			  u64 *total_devs, u64 super_offset, unsigned sbflags);
 int btrfs_num_copies(struct btrfs_mapping_tree *map_tree, u64 logical, u64 len);
 struct list_head *btrfs_scanned_uuids(void);
-int btrfs_add_system_chunk(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
-			   struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_key *key,
+int btrfs_add_system_chunk(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_key *key,
 			   struct btrfs_chunk *chunk, int item_size);
 int btrfs_chunk_readonly(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 chunk_offset);
 struct btrfs_device *