diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 87adc9ee0de6..2460deb32ea7 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 97bd42b9c8be748ad85b362ba3bd401f4d35be80
+refs/heads/master: 53c550e9750434ddc4275fe0405170e0d1b46731
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index 8d50879d1c2c..a04a1ac4e0cf 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
+		goto out;
+
 	/*
 	 * The VFS has written the file data.  If the inode is unaltered
 	 * then we need not start a commit.