diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 9f6d2e4..1fe3968 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2318,12 +2318,6 @@
 	loff_t size;
 	int ret;
 
-	/*
-	 * Update file times before taking page lock. We may end up failing the
-	 * fault so this update may be superfluous but who really cares...
-	 */
-	file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
-
 	lock_page(page);
 	size = i_size_read(inode);
 	if ((page->mapping != inode->i_mapping) ||
@@ -2361,6 +2355,13 @@
 	struct super_block *sb = vma->vm_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_sb;
 
 	sb_start_pagefault(sb);
+
+	/*
+	 * Update file times before taking page lock. We may end up failing the
+	 * fault so this update may be superfluous but who really cares...
+	 */
+	file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
+
 	ret = __block_page_mkwrite(vma, vmf, get_block);
 	sb_end_pagefault(sb);
 	return block_page_mkwrite_return(ret);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 09308ad..f18e786 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4788,6 +4788,7 @@
 	int retries = 0;
 
 	sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
+	file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
 	/* Delalloc case is easy... */
 	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELALLOC) &&
 	    !ext4_should_journal_data(inode) &&
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/file.c b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
index a4d56ac..5b387a4 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
 	if (unlikely(ret))
 		goto out;
 
+	file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
 	ret = __block_page_mkwrite(vma, vmf, nilfs_get_block);
 	if (ret) {
 		nilfs_transaction_abort(inode->i_sb);