diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 27946882d4ce45b7b544bce1b28a26eef006cd64..4cc6c7834312fede929adfe3dcba2a8f3da0d95f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5933,26 +5933,16 @@ int __ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
  * If the inode is marked synchronous, we don't honour that here - doing
  * so would cause a commit on atime updates, which we don't bother doing.
  * We handle synchronous inodes at the highest possible level.
- *
- * If only the I_DIRTY_TIME flag is set, we can skip everything.  If
- * I_DIRTY_TIME and I_DIRTY_SYNC is set, the only inode fields we need
- * to copy into the on-disk inode structure are the timestamp files.
  */
 void ext4_dirty_inode(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 {
 	handle_t *handle;
 
-	if (flags == I_DIRTY_TIME)
-		return;
 	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
 	if (IS_ERR(handle))
-		goto out;
-
+		return;
 	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
-
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-out:
-	return;
 }
 
 int ext4_change_inode_journal_flag(struct inode *inode, int val)
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index b4a07fe62d1a58101e1f896bed40c6f3c28b5b81..cc98dc49f4a26c234c4cbc3db6ac5125da001f15 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -1196,9 +1196,6 @@ static void f2fs_dirty_inode(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 			inode->i_ino == F2FS_META_INO(sbi))
 		return;
 
-	if (flags == I_DIRTY_TIME)
-		return;
-
 	if (is_inode_flag_set(inode, FI_AUTO_RECOVER))
 		clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_AUTO_RECOVER);
 
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index c41cb887eb7d3cbe3114147cea8fd0321767b831..b7616bbd553360e5a2f1fc39c1abda57feafd0b6 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -2255,16 +2255,16 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 	 * Don't do this for I_DIRTY_PAGES - that doesn't actually
 	 * dirty the inode itself
 	 */
-	if (flags & (I_DIRTY_INODE | I_DIRTY_TIME)) {
+	if (flags & I_DIRTY_INODE) {
 		trace_writeback_dirty_inode_start(inode, flags);
 
 		if (sb->s_op->dirty_inode)
 			sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, flags);
 
 		trace_writeback_dirty_inode(inode, flags);
-	}
-	if (flags & I_DIRTY_INODE)
+
 		flags &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME;
+	}
 	dirtytime = flags & I_DIRTY_TIME;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/super.c b/fs/gfs2/super.c
index 2f56acc41c0498184ea367085267e95b7c234611..042b94288ff11ad7349bf3eab2fa42d5de268be4 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/super.c
@@ -562,8 +562,6 @@ static void gfs2_dirty_inode(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 	int need_endtrans = 0;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!(flags & I_DIRTY_INODE))
-		return;
 	if (unlikely(gfs2_withdrawn(sdp)))
 		return;
 	if (!gfs2_glock_is_locked_by_me(ip->i_gl)) {