Index: b/fs/ext3/inode.c
===================================================================
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -2676,6 +2676,25 @@ void ext3_set_inode_flags(struct inode *
 		inode->i_flags |= S_DIRSYNC;
 }
 
+/* Propagate flags from i_flags to EXT3_I(inode)->i_flags */
+void ext3_get_inode_flags(struct ldiskfs_inode_info *ei)
+{
+        unsigned int flags = ei->vfs_inode.i_flags;
+
+        ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT3_SYNC_FL|EXT3_APPEND_FL|
+                        EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT3_NOATIME_FL|EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL);
+        if (flags & S_SYNC)
+                ei->i_flags |= EXT3_SYNC_FL;
+        if (flags & S_APPEND)
+                ei->i_flags |= EXT3_APPEND_FL;
+        if (flags & S_IMMUTABLE)
+                ei->i_flags |= EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL;
+        if (flags & S_NOATIME)
+                ei->i_flags |= EXT3_NOATIME_FL;
+        if (flags & S_DIRSYNC)
+                ei->i_flags |= EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL;
+}
+
 void ext3_read_inode(struct inode * inode)
 {
 	struct ext3_iloc iloc;
@@ -2841,6 +2860,7 @@ static int ext3_do_update_inode(handle_t
 	if (ei->i_state & EXT3_STATE_NEW)
 		memset(raw_inode, 0, EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_inode_size);
 
+	ext3_get_inode_flags(ei);
 	raw_inode->i_mode = cpu_to_le16(inode->i_mode);
 	if(!(test_opt(inode->i_sb, NO_UID32))) {
 		raw_inode->i_uid_low = cpu_to_le16(low_16_bits(inode->i_uid));
Index: b/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
===================================================================
--- a/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ int ext3_ioctl (struct inode * inode, st
 		return rc;
 	}
 	case EXT3_IOC_GETFLAGS:
+		ext3_get_inode_flags(ei);
 		flags = ei->i_flags & EXT3_FL_USER_VISIBLE;
 		return put_user(flags, (int __user *) arg);
 	case EXT3_IOC_SETFLAGS: {
Index: b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
===================================================================
--- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
@@ -1092,6 +1092,7 @@ extern int ext3_get_inode_loc(struct ino
 extern int ext3_can_truncate(struct inode *inode);
 extern void ext3_truncate (struct inode *);
 extern void ext3_set_inode_flags(struct inode *);
+extern void ext3_get_inode_flags(struct ldiskfs_inode_info *ei);
 extern void ext3_set_aops(struct inode *inode);
 extern int ext3_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
 		       u64 start, u64 len);