diff --git a/libavfilter/framequeue.c b/libavfilter/framequeue.c
index 383c195b85..ace0dad689 100644
--- a/libavfilter/framequeue.c
+++ b/libavfilter/framequeue.c
@@ -79,9 +79,8 @@ int ff_framequeue_add(FFFrameQueue *fq, AVFrame *frame)
             FFFrameBucket *nq = av_realloc_array(fq->queue, na, sizeof(*nq));
             if (!nq)
                 return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
-            if (fq->tail + fq->queued > fq->allocated)
-                memmove(nq + fq->allocated, nq,
-                        (fq->tail + fq->queued - fq->allocated) * sizeof(*nq));
+            if (fq->tail)
+                memmove(nq + fq->allocated, nq, fq->tail * sizeof(*nq));
             fq->queue = nq;
             fq->allocated = na;
         }