1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/fsync.c b/fs/ext3/fsync.c
index d4dff278cbd8..b31dbd4c46ad 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/fsync.c
@@ -92,8 +92,13 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
          * disk caches manually so that data really is on persistent
          * storage
          */
-        if (needs_barrier)
-                blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+        if (needs_barrier) {
+                int err;
+
+                err = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+                if (!ret)
+                        ret = err;
+        }
 out:
         trace_ext3_sync_file_exit(inode, ret);
         return ret;