diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index a5138c564019a4ca863b0540f7503f0a55ecd27e..4ea57edf3e54c62ba33cd5884e8c72c0920d15d5 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -842,24 +842,6 @@ submit_page_section(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio, struct page *page,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/*
- * Clean any dirty buffers in the blockdev mapping which alias newly-created
- * file blocks.  Only called for S_ISREG files - blockdevs do not set
- * buffer_new
- */
-static void clean_blockdev_aliases(struct dio *dio, struct buffer_head *map_bh)
-{
-	unsigned i;
-	unsigned nblocks;
-
-	nblocks = map_bh->b_size >> dio->inode->i_blkbits;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < nblocks; i++) {
-		unmap_underlying_metadata(map_bh->b_bdev,
-					  map_bh->b_blocknr + i);
-	}
-}
-
 /*
  * If we are not writing the entire block and get_block() allocated
  * the block for us, we need to fill-in the unused portion of the
@@ -960,11 +942,15 @@ static int do_direct_IO(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio,
 					goto do_holes;
 
 				sdio->blocks_available =
-						map_bh->b_size >> sdio->blkbits;
+						map_bh->b_size >> blkbits;
 				sdio->next_block_for_io =
 					map_bh->b_blocknr << sdio->blkfactor;
-				if (buffer_new(map_bh))
-					clean_blockdev_aliases(dio, map_bh);
+				if (buffer_new(map_bh)) {
+					clean_bdev_aliases(
+						map_bh->b_bdev,
+						map_bh->b_blocknr,
+						map_bh->b_size >> blkbits);
+				}
 
 				if (!sdio->blkfactor)
 					goto do_holes;