diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 8107fdc5aa23..9c23fb84c184 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 0f7ee7c17241915fdaff49d1a36f5aafd80a7dce
+refs/heads/master: 759d427aa5a9d88a81afd11817cdeb40aea85234
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c
index dadd3f995db5..14c00fff3713 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4790,25 +4790,6 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait)
 	return ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
 }
 
-int __ext4_write_dirty_metadata(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
-{
-	int err = 0;
-
-	mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
-	if (inode && inode_needs_sync(inode)) {
-		sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
-		if (buffer_req(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
-			ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__,
-				   "IO error syncing inode, "
-				   "inode=%lu, block=%llu",
-				   inode->i_ino,
-				   (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
-			err = -EIO;
-		}
-	}
-	return err;
-}
-
 /*
  * ext4_setattr()
  *