diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 32b7daa41a42289f75ff714a3419ad2e3a96abe8..bab2387fba43722837b6877abfb02626943abc20 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1671,6 +1671,7 @@ extern void ext4_htree_free_dir_info(struct dir_private_info *p);
 
 /* fsync.c */
 extern int ext4_sync_file(struct file *, int);
+extern int ext4_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *);
 
 /* hash.c */
 extern int ext4fs_dirhash(const char *name, int len, struct
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 9081d1060a5f7577663990ebf9b32f048bdfd549..627f7ae94ae5570a7de9312faa26d882eccfbee7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3533,6 +3533,12 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 	handle_t *handle;
 	int err = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * finish any pending end_io work so we won't run the risk of
+	 * converting any truncated blocks to initialized later
+	 */
+	ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
+
 	/*
 	 * probably first extent we're gonna free will be last in block
 	 */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index c1a7bc923cf6084c84f32b91294ec5feecf8b92c..7829b287822a4207080c4089921e22418a855d93 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static void dump_completed_IO(struct inode * inode)
  * to written.
  * The function return the number of pending IOs on success.
  */
-static int flush_completed_IO(struct inode *inode)
+extern int ext4_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	ext4_io_end_t *io;
 	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, int datasync)
 	if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
 		return 0;
 
-	ret = flush_completed_IO(inode);
+	ret = ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;