diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 10367ffe92e3e37704f5e32793ea97175c8b15e6..212a6777ff3172dd9e20401dd7bf87ad5d2f7468 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ void md_super_write(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev,
 	    test_bit(FailFast, &rdev->flags) &&
 	    !test_bit(LastDev, &rdev->flags))
 		ff = MD_FAILFAST;
-	bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | ff;
+	bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | ff;
 
 	atomic_inc(&mddev->pending_writes);
 	submit_bio(bio);
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
index 4c00bc248287e4ab89b492225e0d054973725549..0a7af8b0a80a031a99a7af1742e2d64e6df0d106 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ static int r5l_log_write_empty_meta_block(struct r5l_log *log, sector_t pos,
 	mb->checksum = cpu_to_le32(crc32c_le(log->uuid_checksum,
 					     mb, PAGE_SIZE));
 	if (!sync_page_io(log->rdev, pos, PAGE_SIZE, page, REQ_OP_WRITE,
-			  REQ_FUA, false)) {
+			  REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA, false)) {
 		__free_page(page);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
@@ -2388,7 +2388,7 @@ r5c_recovery_rewrite_data_only_stripes(struct r5l_log *log,
 		mb->checksum = cpu_to_le32(crc32c_le(log->uuid_checksum,
 						     mb, PAGE_SIZE));
 		sync_page_io(log->rdev, ctx->pos, PAGE_SIZE, page,
-			     REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_FUA, false);
+			     REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA, false);
 		sh->log_start = ctx->pos;
 		list_add_tail(&sh->r5c, &log->stripe_in_journal_list);
 		atomic_inc(&log->stripe_in_journal_count);
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c b/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c
index 5d25bebf3328e4967334465916aca3e3c750e447..ccce92e68d7fa5d8258bb7f2ca2bfa1bcd545709 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c
@@ -907,8 +907,8 @@ static int ppl_write_empty_header(struct ppl_log *log)
 	pplhdr->checksum = cpu_to_le32(~crc32c_le(~0, pplhdr, PAGE_SIZE));
 
 	if (!sync_page_io(rdev, rdev->ppl.sector - rdev->data_offset,
-			  PPL_HEADER_SIZE, page, REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_FUA, 0,
-			  false)) {
+			  PPL_HEADER_SIZE, page, REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_SYNC |
+			  REQ_FUA, 0, false)) {
 		md_error(rdev->mddev, rdev);
 		ret = -EIO;
 	}