diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index a07241fb8537..c96e7c6354ef 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -658,6 +658,14 @@ static int ra_data_block(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index)
 	fio.page = page;
 	fio.new_blkaddr = fio.old_blkaddr = dn.data_blkaddr;
 
+	/*
+	 * don't cache encrypted data into meta inode until previous dirty
+	 * data were writebacked to avoid racing between GC and flush.
+	 */
+	f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, DATA, true);
+
+	f2fs_wait_on_block_writeback(inode, dn.data_blkaddr);
+
 	fio.encrypted_page = f2fs_pagecache_get_page(META_MAPPING(sbi),
 					dn.data_blkaddr,
 					FGP_LOCK | FGP_CREAT, GFP_NOFS);
@@ -745,6 +753,8 @@ static int move_data_block(struct inode *inode, block_t bidx,
 	 */
 	f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, DATA, true);
 
+	f2fs_wait_on_block_writeback(inode, dn.data_blkaddr);
+
 	err = f2fs_get_node_info(fio.sbi, dn.nid, &ni);
 	if (err)
 		goto put_out;