diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 2bfd850ca9d3..9934d5be2014 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: b9d128f1088ea5245109dfc9bbceb128b6371a77
+refs/heads/master: ab0a9735e06914ce4d2a94ffa41497dbc142fe7f
diff --git a/trunk/fs/block_dev.c b/trunk/fs/block_dev.c
index 9cf4b926f8e4..dde91e7e1c3a 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -405,7 +405,17 @@ static loff_t block_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
  
 static int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
 {
-	return sync_blockdev(I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host));
+	struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host);
+	int error;
+
+	error = sync_blockdev(bdev);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+	
+	error = blkdev_issue_flush(bdev, NULL);
+	if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+		error = 0;
+	return error;
 }
 
 /*