1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 509f429f71e..1ce240a23eb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -1239,7 +1239,6 @@ extern int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
         handle_t *handle;
         ext4_fsblk_t blk;
         int num, ret = 0, used_blks = 0;
-        unsigned long flags = BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT;
 
         /* This should not happen, but just to be sure check this */
         if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
@@ -1304,11 +1303,11 @@ extern int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 
         ext4_debug("going to zero out inode table in group %d\n",
                    group);
-        if (barrier)
-                flags |= BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER;
-        ret = sb_issue_zeroout(sb, blk, num, GFP_NOFS, flags);
+        ret = sb_issue_zeroout(sb, blk, num, GFP_NOFS);
         if (ret < 0)
                 goto err_out;
+        if (barrier)
+                blkdev_issue_flush(sb->s_bdev, GFP_NOFS, NULL);
 
 skip_zeroout:
         ext4_lock_group(sb, group);