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diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 9843b046c23..efe8caa3811 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3590,6 +3590,16 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode,
}
if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
lock_buffer(bh);
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer has the write error flag, we have failed
+ * to write out another inode in the same block. In this
+ * case, we don't have to read the block because we may
+ * read the old inode data successfully.
+ */
+ if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh))
+ set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+
if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
/* someone brought it uptodate while we waited */
unlock_buffer(bh);