diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index fd3c1275e738..4556231dac5b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 5447ed6c968e7270b656afa273c2b79d15d82edd
+refs/heads/master: c213e1407be6b04b144794399a91472e0ef92aec
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/trunk/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 8b827f37b03e..de6c60320f6f 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1040,6 +1040,7 @@ static void sd_prepare_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 {
 	rq->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC;
 	rq->timeout = SD_TIMEOUT;
+	rq->retries = SD_MAX_RETRIES;
 	rq->cmd[0] = SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE;
 	rq->cmd_len = 10;
 }