diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index c4db19a4385e..4ca4107cefed 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: c518d04fdec3d8b9d6f8b2228040934de9ee6708
+refs/heads/master: 3f3a9b849d2b703934c07fa17f5eac2dc37c1f6b
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index 23878ffc43c8..73c905d0ef18 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -3446,12 +3446,9 @@ void drbd_md_sync(struct drbd_conf *mdev)
 	D_ASSERT(drbd_md_ss__(mdev, mdev->ldev) == mdev->ldev->md.md_offset);
 	sector = mdev->ldev->md.md_offset;
 
-	if (drbd_md_sync_page_io(mdev, mdev->ldev, sector, WRITE)) {
-		clear_bit(MD_DIRTY, &mdev->flags);
-	} else {
+	if (!drbd_md_sync_page_io(mdev, mdev->ldev, sector, WRITE)) {
 		/* this was a try anyways ... */
 		dev_err(DEV, "meta data update failed!\n");
-
 		drbd_chk_io_error(mdev, 1, TRUE);
 	}