diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index 22d904bde6ab9158702e4d4d83a42ebb4056770d..a74aef99bd3d6105b07da8ee90f07f1ff15d0c69 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -690,9 +690,14 @@ int dquot_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 	/* This is not very clever (and fast) but currently I don't know about
 	 * any other simple way of getting quota data to disk and we must get
 	 * them there for userspace to be visible... */
-	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
-		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
-	sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) {
+		ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
+	ret = sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * Now when everything is written we can discard the pagecache so
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 7af820ba5ad56ae41a1a04d172194a06da72d0e1..f1d4a193602d673b8aaf435d9d2d1c25388221b1 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1616,11 +1616,9 @@ static void lockdep_sb_freeze_acquire(struct super_block *sb)
 		percpu_rwsem_acquire(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level, 0, _THIS_IP_);
 }
 
-static void sb_freeze_unlock(struct super_block *sb)
+static void sb_freeze_unlock(struct super_block *sb, int level)
 {
-	int level;
-
-	for (level = SB_FREEZE_LEVELS - 1; level >= 0; level--)
+	for (level--; level >= 0; level--)
 		percpu_up_write(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level);
 }
 
@@ -1691,7 +1689,14 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	sb_wait_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT);
 
 	/* All writers are done so after syncing there won't be dirty data */
-	sync_filesystem(sb);
+	ret = sync_filesystem(sb);
+	if (ret) {
+		sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN;
+		sb_freeze_unlock(sb, SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT);
+		wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen);
+		deactivate_locked_super(sb);
+		return ret;
+	}
 
 	/* Now wait for internal filesystem counter */
 	sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_FS;
@@ -1703,7 +1708,7 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
 			printk(KERN_ERR
 				"VFS:Filesystem freeze failed\n");
 			sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN;
-			sb_freeze_unlock(sb);
+			sb_freeze_unlock(sb, SB_FREEZE_FS);
 			wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen);
 			deactivate_locked_super(sb);
 			return ret;
@@ -1748,7 +1753,7 @@ static int thaw_super_locked(struct super_block *sb)
 	}
 
 	sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN;
-	sb_freeze_unlock(sb);
+	sb_freeze_unlock(sb, SB_FREEZE_FS);
 out:
 	wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen);
 	deactivate_locked_super(sb);
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 3ce8e2137f3109e36ec29895f73c9749893f70d6..c7690016453e460c4b295df9f5c15f7b7f0bf756 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
  */
 int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * We need to be protected against the filesystem going from
@@ -52,15 +52,21 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb)
 	 * at a time.
 	 */
 	writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC);
-	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
-		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0);
+	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) {
+		ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
 	ret = sync_blockdev_nowait(sb->s_bdev);
-	if (ret < 0)
+	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
 	sync_inodes_sb(sb);
-	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
-		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) {
+		ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
 	return sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_filesystem);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index e8f37bdc835484c0817438cf40042b517e8fdc1b..4c0dee78b2f8bbb8a11a827fc3464fad4e3c4e13 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -735,6 +735,7 @@ xfs_fs_sync_fs(
 	int			wait)
 {
 	struct xfs_mount	*mp = XFS_M(sb);
+	int			error;
 
 	trace_xfs_fs_sync_fs(mp, __return_address);
 
@@ -744,7 +745,10 @@ xfs_fs_sync_fs(
 	if (!wait)
 		return 0;
 
-	xfs_log_force(mp, XFS_LOG_SYNC);
+	error = xfs_log_force(mp, XFS_LOG_SYNC);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+
 	if (laptop_mode) {
 		/*
 		 * The disk must be active because we're syncing.