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-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/xattr.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/xattr.c b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
index 12f7dda1232..f58cbb26323 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
@@ -495,7 +495,8 @@ ext3_xattr_release_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
BHDR(bh)->h_refcount = cpu_to_le32(
le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount) - 1);
error = ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
- handle->h_sync = 1;
+ if (IS_SYNC(inode))
+ handle->h_sync = 1;
DQUOT_FREE_BLOCK(inode, 1);
ea_bdebug(bh, "refcount now=%d; releasing",
le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount));