diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 74db579bb4825bc11929d9b667e1db6cd79abc62..be95c83f5875d657dddd7183b23edaa85ba94b36 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1998,7 +1998,6 @@ static inline  unsigned char get_dtype(struct super_block *sb, int filetype)
 
 /* fsync.c */
 extern int ext4_sync_file(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
-extern int ext4_flush_unwritten_io(struct inode *);
 
 /* hash.c */
 extern int ext4fs_dirhash(const char *name, int len, struct
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index d6e4f0e09a8cc071e1f2b54b9f15b2b80c912955..de6dd77f0c569797dc9eed56fb257b07c6ee4242 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3522,9 +3522,6 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
 
 	/* Wait all existing dio workers, newcomers will block on i_mutex */
 	ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
-	ret = ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out_dio;
 	inode_dio_wait(inode);
 
 	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 0f65561ab5a5c63750cf33099a90bd3d7b6bf135..6ee5bd389405c7faf540c5780fa97f71498553d7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -281,22 +281,6 @@ void ext4_end_io_unrsv_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	ext4_do_flush_completed_IO(&ei->vfs_inode, &ei->i_unrsv_conversion_list);
 }
 
-int ext4_flush_unwritten_io(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	int ret, err;
-
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex) &&
-		     !(inode->i_state & I_FREEING));
-	ret = ext4_do_flush_completed_IO(inode,
-					 &EXT4_I(inode)->i_rsv_conversion_list);
-	err = ext4_do_flush_completed_IO(inode,
-					 &EXT4_I(inode)->i_unrsv_conversion_list);
-	if (!ret)
-		ret = err;
-	ext4_unwritten_wait(inode);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 ext4_io_end_t *ext4_init_io_end(struct inode *inode, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	ext4_io_end_t *io = kmem_cache_zalloc(io_end_cachep, flags);