diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 17cc2dc13174..2348be3d66b7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -3344,6 +3344,19 @@ static inline void ext4_clear_io_unwritten_flag(ext4_io_end_t *io_end)
 
 extern const struct iomap_ops ext4_iomap_ops;
 
+static inline int ext4_buffer_uptodate(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	/*
+	 * If the buffer has the write error flag, we have failed
+	 * to write out data in the block.  In this  case, we don't
+	 * have to read the block because we may read the old data
+	 * successfully.
+	 */
+	if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && buffer_write_io_error(bh))
+		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+	return buffer_uptodate(bh);
+}
+
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #define EFSBADCRC	EBADMSG		/* Bad CRC detected */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 4b92c7603907..9db896fc6af8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ struct buffer_head *ext4_bread(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	bh = ext4_getblk(handle, inode, block, map_flags);
 	if (IS_ERR(bh))
 		return bh;
-	if (!bh || buffer_uptodate(bh))
+	if (!bh || ext4_buffer_uptodate(bh))
 		return bh;
 	ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, 1, &bh);
 	wait_on_buffer(bh);
@@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ int ext4_bread_batch(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block, int bh_count,
 
 	for (i = 0; i < bh_count; i++)
 		/* Note that NULL bhs[i] is valid because of holes. */
-		if (bhs[i] && !buffer_uptodate(bhs[i]))
+		if (bhs[i] && !ext4_buffer_uptodate(bhs[i]))
 			ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, 1,
 				    &bhs[i]);