diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
index cc9dc79b0784ad4fb0970e1db4defd0126b63e5a..752a29e1855b327f13ee24fa9fcfb4478fe32b29 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
@@ -396,6 +396,8 @@ static int mirror_available(struct mirror_set *ms, struct bio *bio)
  */
 static sector_t map_sector(struct mirror *m, struct bio *bio)
 {
+	if (unlikely(!bio->bi_size))
+		return 0;
 	return m->offset + (bio->bi_sector - m->ms->ti->begin);
 }
 
@@ -562,7 +564,7 @@ static void do_write(struct mirror_set *ms, struct bio *bio)
 	struct dm_io_region io[ms->nr_mirrors], *dest = io;
 	struct mirror *m;
 	struct dm_io_request io_req = {
-		.bi_rw = WRITE,
+		.bi_rw = WRITE | (bio->bi_rw & WRITE_BARRIER),
 		.mem.type = DM_IO_BVEC,
 		.mem.ptr.bvec = bio->bi_io_vec + bio->bi_idx,
 		.notify.fn = write_callback,
@@ -603,6 +605,11 @@ static void do_writes(struct mirror_set *ms, struct bio_list *writes)
 	bio_list_init(&requeue);
 
 	while ((bio = bio_list_pop(writes))) {
+		if (unlikely(bio_empty_barrier(bio))) {
+			bio_list_add(&sync, bio);
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		region = dm_rh_bio_to_region(ms->rh, bio);
 
 		if (log->type->is_remote_recovering &&
@@ -995,6 +1002,7 @@ static int mirror_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 
 	ti->private = ms;
 	ti->split_io = dm_rh_get_region_size(ms->rh);
+	ti->num_flush_requests = 1;
 
 	ms->kmirrord_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kmirrord");
 	if (!ms->kmirrord_wq) {
@@ -1122,7 +1130,8 @@ static int mirror_end_io(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio,
 	 * We need to dec pending if this was a write.
 	 */
 	if (rw == WRITE) {
-		dm_rh_dec(ms->rh, map_context->ll);
+		if (likely(!bio_empty_barrier(bio)))
+			dm_rh_dec(ms->rh, map_context->ll);
 		return error;
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c b/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c
index 36dbe29f2fd60e775b05a0c0562e4741a42a8d08..00806b760ccd7420aff6fc25183c2dd9eab009a2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ struct dm_region_hash {
 	struct list_head recovered_regions;
 	struct list_head failed_recovered_regions;
 
+	/*
+	 * If there was a barrier failure no regions can be marked clean.
+	 */
+	int barrier_failure;
+
 	void *context;
 	sector_t target_begin;
 
@@ -211,6 +216,7 @@ struct dm_region_hash *dm_region_hash_create(
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rh->quiesced_regions);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rh->recovered_regions);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rh->failed_recovered_regions);
+	rh->barrier_failure = 0;
 
 	rh->region_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(MIN_REGIONS,
 						      sizeof(struct dm_region));
@@ -395,6 +401,11 @@ void dm_rh_mark_nosync(struct dm_region_hash *rh,
 	region_t region = dm_rh_bio_to_region(rh, bio);
 	int recovering = 0;
 
+	if (bio_empty_barrier(bio)) {
+		rh->barrier_failure = 1;
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* We must inform the log that the sync count has changed. */
 	log->type->set_region_sync(log, region, 0);
 
@@ -515,8 +526,11 @@ void dm_rh_inc_pending(struct dm_region_hash *rh, struct bio_list *bios)
 {
 	struct bio *bio;
 
-	for (bio = bios->head; bio; bio = bio->bi_next)
+	for (bio = bios->head; bio; bio = bio->bi_next) {
+		if (bio_empty_barrier(bio))
+			continue;
 		rh_inc(rh, dm_rh_bio_to_region(rh, bio));
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_rh_inc_pending);
 
@@ -544,7 +558,14 @@ void dm_rh_dec(struct dm_region_hash *rh, region_t region)
 		 */
 
 		/* do nothing for DM_RH_NOSYNC */
-		if (reg->state == DM_RH_RECOVERING) {
+		if (unlikely(rh->barrier_failure)) {
+			/*
+			 * If a write barrier failed some time ago, we
+			 * don't know whether or not this write made it
+			 * to the disk, so we must resync the device.
+			 */
+			reg->state = DM_RH_NOSYNC;
+		} else if (reg->state == DM_RH_RECOVERING) {
 			list_add_tail(&reg->list, &rh->quiesced_regions);
 		} else if (reg->state == DM_RH_DIRTY) {
 			reg->state = DM_RH_CLEAN;