diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
index 8f0f658..3dd5c9c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
@@ -823,18 +823,6 @@
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
 
-	/*
-	 * Signal synchronous inactive transactions unless this is a
-	 * synchronous mount filesystem in which case we know that we're here
-	 * because we've been called out of xfs_inactive which means that the
-	 * last reference is gone and the unlink transaction has already hit
-	 * the disk so async inactive transactions are safe.
-	 */
-	if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_WSYNC)) {
-		if (dp->i_d.di_anextents > 0)
-			xfs_trans_set_sync(trans);
-	}
-
 	error = xfs_itruncate_extents(&trans, dp, XFS_ATTR_FORK, 0);
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c
index 452a291..a6075c0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -3782,19 +3782,11 @@
  * Routine to be called at transaction's end by xfs_bmapi, xfs_bunmapi
  * caller.  Frees all the extents that need freeing, which must be done
  * last due to locking considerations.  We never free any extents in
- * the first transaction.  This is to allow the caller to make the first
- * transaction a synchronous one so that the pointers to the data being
- * broken in this transaction will be permanent before the data is actually
- * freed.  This is necessary to prevent blocks from being reallocated
- * and written to before the free and reallocation are actually permanent.
- * We do not just make the first transaction synchronous here, because
- * there are more efficient ways to gain the same protection in some cases
- * (see the file truncation code).
+ * the first transaction.
  *
  * Return 1 if the given transaction was committed and a new one
  * started, and 0 otherwise in the committed parameter.
  */
-/*ARGSUSED*/
 int						/* error */
 xfs_bmap_finish(
 	xfs_trans_t		**tp,		/* transaction pointer addr */