1 files changed, 16 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 118e16ca91d7..22fb1a3a045c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4991,8 +4991,7 @@ static int ext4_inode_blocks_set(handle_t *handle,
  */
 static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle,
                                 struct inode *inode,
-                                struct ext4_iloc *iloc,
-                                int do_sync)
+                                struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
 {
         struct ext4_inode *raw_inode = ext4_raw_inode(iloc);
         struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
@@ -5093,22 +5092,10 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle,
                 raw_inode->i_extra_isize = cpu_to_le16(ei->i_extra_isize);
         }
 
-        /*
-         * If we're not using a journal and we were called from
-         * ext4_write_inode() to sync the inode (making do_sync true),
-         * we can just use sync_dirty_buffer() directly to do our dirty
-         * work.  Testing s_journal here is a bit redundant but it's
-         * worth it to avoid potential future trouble.
-         */
-        if (EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal == NULL && do_sync) {
-                BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call sync_dirty_buffer");
-                sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
-        } else {
-                BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
-                rc = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
-                if (!err)
-                        err = rc;
-        }
+        BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
+        rc = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
+        if (!err)
+                err = rc;
         ei->i_state &= ~EXT4_STATE_NEW;
 
 out_brelse:
@@ -5176,8 +5163,16 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait)
                 err = ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc);
                 if (err)
                         return err;
-                err = ext4_do_update_inode(EXT4_NOJOURNAL_HANDLE,
-                                           inode, &iloc, wait);
+                if (wait)
+                        sync_dirty_buffer(iloc.bh);
+                if (buffer_req(iloc.bh) && !buffer_uptodate(iloc.bh)) {
+                        ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__,
+                                   "IO error syncing inode, "
+                                   "inode=%lu, block=%llu",
+                                   inode->i_ino,
+                                   (unsigned long long)iloc.bh->b_blocknr);
+                        err = -EIO;
+                }
         }
         return err;
 }
@@ -5473,7 +5468,7 @@ int ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(handle_t *handle,
         get_bh(iloc->bh);
 
         /* ext4_do_update_inode() does jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata */
-        err = ext4_do_update_inode(handle, inode, iloc, 0);
+        err = ext4_do_update_inode(handle, inode, iloc);
         put_bh(iloc->bh);
         return err;
 }