diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
index 90f7c2e84db1bef3fdb90931f9124cfe052705dd..c19ab6addb24401af321a08b8d3bd9cc0d1ed8e5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
@@ -151,11 +151,10 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_super(const char *where, unsigned int line,
 		if (err)
 			ext4_journal_abort_handle(where, line, __func__,
 						  bh, handle, err);
-	} else if (now) {
+	} else {
 		ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb,
 				(struct ext4_super_block *)bh->b_data);
 		mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
-	} else
-		sb->s_dirt = 1;
+	}
 	return err;
 }
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index bebf8e5bf0878afd9ad05b1b7e70263ad0dfaf70..662e93e8c25b91d73ba4e0238f2bf2990fdd25b2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 		EXT4_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
 		es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);
 	}
-	if (sb->s_dirt || !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
 		ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 
 	if (sbi->s_proc) {