diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 23c15124c9ab66ec788b48c5ab9341ee150b5eca..b27dcd80caf066ecb52a70fb472b767c9457b9f4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4637,16 +4637,7 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode,
 	if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 		lock_buffer(bh);
 
-		/*
-		 * If the buffer has the write error flag, we have failed
-		 * to write out another inode in the same block.  In this
-		 * case, we don't have to read the block because we may
-		 * read the old inode data successfully.
-		 */
-		if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh))
-			set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
-
-		if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
+		if (ext4_buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 			/* someone brought it uptodate while we waited */
 			unlock_buffer(bh);
 			goto has_buffer;