diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index 22d904bde6ab9..a74aef99bd3d6 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -690,9 +690,14 @@ int dquot_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 	/* This is not very clever (and fast) but currently I don't know about
 	 * any other simple way of getting quota data to disk and we must get
 	 * them there for userspace to be visible... */
-	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
-		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
-	sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) {
+		ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
+	ret = sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * Now when everything is written we can discard the pagecache so