diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index abb0403d3414..9b3e7635222c 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -1493,6 +1493,7 @@ static int f2fs_ioc_setflags(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
 
 	inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
 	f2fs_set_inode_flags(inode);
+	f2fs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode, false);
 
 	inode_unlock(inode);
 out:
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
index 518f49643092..e53c784ab11e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ void f2fs_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
 		new_fl |= S_DIRSYNC;
 	inode_set_flags(inode, new_fl,
 			S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC);
-	f2fs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode, false);
 }
 
 static void __get_inode_rdev(struct inode *inode, struct f2fs_inode *ri)
@@ -226,6 +225,7 @@ struct inode *f2fs_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 		ret = -EIO;
 		goto bad_inode;
 	}
+	f2fs_set_inode_flags(inode);
 	unlock_new_inode(inode);
 	trace_f2fs_iget(inode);
 	return inode;