diff --git a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c
index f5a32317b751..8756ab0daa8b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/raw.c
+++ b/drivers/char/raw.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static const struct file_operations raw_fops = {
 	.aio_read = 	generic_file_aio_read,
 	.write	=	do_sync_write,
 	.aio_write =	blkdev_aio_write,
-	.fsync	=	block_fsync,
+	.fsync	=	blkdev_fsync,
 	.open	=	raw_open,
 	.release=	raw_release,
 	.ioctl	=	raw_ioctl,
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 8db62b2b6df8..2a6d0193f139 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static loff_t block_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
  *	NULL first argument is nfsd_sync_dir() and that's not a directory.
  */
  
-int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
+int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
 {
 	struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host);
 	int error;
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
 		error = 0;
 	return error;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_fsync);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_fsync);
 
 /*
  * pseudo-fs
@@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {
   	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= blkdev_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
-	.fsync		= block_fsync,
+	.fsync		= blkdev_fsync,
 	.unlocked_ioctl	= block_ioctl,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 	.compat_ioctl	= compat_blkdev_ioctl,
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 5d9c7e27c5a4..39d57bc6cc71 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2212,7 +2212,7 @@ extern int generic_segment_checks(const struct iovec *iov,
 /* fs/block_dev.c */
 extern ssize_t blkdev_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
-extern int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync);
+extern int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync);
 
 /* fs/splice.c */
 extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *, loff_t *,