diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 7688436b19ba..35fda08dc4f6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -661,9 +661,7 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat)
 	trace_nfs_getattr_enter(inode);
 	/* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime.  */
 	if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
-		inode_lock(inode);
-		err = nfs_sync_inode(inode);
-		inode_unlock(inode);
+		err = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
 		if (err)
 			goto out;
 	}