diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
index 28b477d397b1be342689a51929983b84e0d96022..f99c47e003fe0dc9bab8db1a8f7047963f202ae8 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
@@ -1958,6 +1958,12 @@ static int mmc_reset(struct mmc_host *host)
 {
 	struct mmc_card *card = host->card;
 
+	/*
+	 * In the case of recovery, we can't expect flushing the cache to work
+	 * always, but we have a go and ignore errors.
+	 */
+	mmc_flush_cache(host->card);
+
 	if ((host->caps & MMC_CAP_HW_RESET) && host->ops->hw_reset &&
 	     mmc_can_reset(card)) {
 		/* If the card accept RST_n signal, send it. */