diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index e27acd18b4b05ab62cc04bae6b95c2be2ef8e86d..e4a241c65dbeb79d189d84b08010430274c6755f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2884,12 +2884,9 @@ int ext4_force_commit(struct super_block *sb)
 /*
  * Ext4 always journals updates to the superblock itself, so we don't
  * have to propagate any other updates to the superblock on disk at this
- * point.  Just start an async writeback to get the buffers on their way
- * to the disk.
- *
- * This implicitly triggers the writebehind on sync().
+ * point.  (We can probably nuke this function altogether, and remove
+ * any mention to sb->s_dirt in all of fs/ext4; eventual cleanup...)
  */
-
 static void ext4_write_super(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	if (mutex_trylock(&sb->s_lock) != 0)
@@ -2899,15 +2896,15 @@ static void ext4_write_super(struct super_block *sb)
 
 static int ext4_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 {
-	tid_t target;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	trace_mark(ext4_sync_fs, "dev %s wait %d", sb->s_id, wait);
 	sb->s_dirt = 0;
-	if (jbd2_journal_start_commit(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, &target)) {
-		if (wait)
-			jbd2_log_wait_commit(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, target);
-	}
-	return 0;
+	if (wait)
+		ret = ext4_force_commit(sb);
+	else
+		jbd2_journal_start_commit(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, NULL);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /*