diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index a7fc561758b1..00cad2658a07 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -592,6 +592,76 @@ int sync_mapping_buffers(struct address_space *mapping)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_mapping_buffers);
 
+/**
+ * generic_buffers_fsync_noflush - generic buffer fsync implementation
+ * for simple filesystems with no inode lock
+ *
+ * @file:	file to synchronize
+ * @start:	start offset in bytes
+ * @end:	end offset in bytes (inclusive)
+ * @datasync:	only synchronize essential metadata if true
+ *
+ * This is a generic implementation of the fsync method for simple
+ * filesystems which track all non-inode metadata in the buffers list
+ * hanging off the address_space structure.
+ */
+int generic_buffers_fsync_noflush(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
+				  bool datasync)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+	int err;
+	int ret;
+
+	err = file_write_and_wait_range(file, start, end);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
+	if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL))
+		goto out;
+	if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
+		goto out;
+
+	err = sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);
+	if (ret == 0)
+		ret = err;
+
+out:
+	/* check and advance again to catch errors after syncing out buffers */
+	err = file_check_and_advance_wb_err(file);
+	if (ret == 0)
+		ret = err;
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_buffers_fsync_noflush);
+
+/**
+ * generic_buffers_fsync - generic buffer fsync implementation
+ * for simple filesystems with no inode lock
+ *
+ * @file:	file to synchronize
+ * @start:	start offset in bytes
+ * @end:	end offset in bytes (inclusive)
+ * @datasync:	only synchronize essential metadata if true
+ *
+ * This is a generic implementation of the fsync method for simple
+ * filesystems which track all non-inode metadata in the buffers list
+ * hanging off the address_space structure. This also makes sure that
+ * a device cache flush operation is called at the end.
+ */
+int generic_buffers_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
+			  bool datasync)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = generic_buffers_fsync_noflush(file, start, end, datasync);
+	if (!ret)
+		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_buffers_fsync);
+
 /*
  * Called when we've recently written block `bblock', and it is known that
  * `bblock' was for a buffer_boundary() buffer.  This means that the block at
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 1520793c72da..1bd73cefd311 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ int inode_has_buffers(struct inode *);
 void invalidate_inode_buffers(struct inode *);
 int remove_inode_buffers(struct inode *inode);
 int sync_mapping_buffers(struct address_space *mapping);
+int generic_buffers_fsync_noflush(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
+				  bool datasync);
+int generic_buffers_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
+			  bool datasync);
 void clean_bdev_aliases(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 			sector_t len);
 static inline void clean_bdev_bh_alias(struct buffer_head *bh)