diff --git a/fs/ext2/file.c b/fs/ext2/file.c
index 6b4bebe982ca..749163787139 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/file.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/quotaops.h>
 #include <linux/iomap.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include "ext2.h"
 #include "xattr.h"
 #include "acl.h"
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ int ext2_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 	int ret;
 	struct super_block *sb = file->f_mapping->host->i_sb;
 
-	ret = generic_file_fsync(file, start, end, datasync);
+	ret = generic_buffers_fsync(file, start, end, datasync);
 	if (ret == -EIO)
 		/* We don't really know where the IO error happened... */
 		ext2_error(sb, __func__,