diff --git a/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c b/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c
index 92d2943..f3ff66e 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c
@@ -1509,6 +1509,7 @@
 	.write_pagelist		= ff_layout_write_pagelist,
 	.alloc_deviceid_node    = ff_layout_alloc_deviceid_node,
 	.encode_layoutreturn    = ff_layout_encode_layoutreturn,
+	.sync			= pnfs_nfs_generic_sync,
 };
 
 static int __init nfs4flexfilelayout_init(void)