diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 19b75688ff72..945c4b00c49d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 163e783e6a8b1e8bcb4c9084d438091386b589df
+refs/heads/master: 524724ed1f224875a117be593540591ed050c73d
diff --git a/trunk/fs/btrfs/file.c b/trunk/fs/btrfs/file.c
index 0726a734ee38..126477eaecf5 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -1157,6 +1157,8 @@ int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
 	btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, 0, (u64)-1);
 	root->log_batch++;
 
+	if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_PAGES))
+		goto out;
 	/*
 	 * ok we haven't committed the transaction yet, lets do a commit
 	 */