diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index 7c61bc9573c0..f2df4422e54a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -2395,7 +2395,7 @@ int cifs_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,
 	 * We need to be sure that all dirty pages are written and the server
 	 * has actual ctime, mtime and file length.
 	 */
-	if ((request_mask & (STATX_CTIME | STATX_MTIME | STATX_SIZE)) &&
+	if ((request_mask & (STATX_CTIME | STATX_MTIME | STATX_SIZE | STATX_BLOCKS)) &&
 	    !CIFS_CACHE_READ(CIFS_I(inode)) &&
 	    inode->i_mapping && inode->i_mapping->nrpages != 0) {
 		rc = filemap_fdatawait(inode->i_mapping);
@@ -2585,6 +2585,14 @@ set_size_out:
 	if (rc == 0) {
 		cifsInode->server_eof = attrs->ia_size;
 		cifs_setsize(inode, attrs->ia_size);
+		/*
+		 * i_blocks is not related to (i_size / i_blksize), but instead
+		 * 512 byte (2**9) size is required for calculating num blocks.
+		 * Until we can query the server for actual allocation size,
+		 * this is best estimate we have for blocks allocated for a file
+		 * Number of blocks must be rounded up so size 1 is not 0 blocks
+		 */
+		inode->i_blocks = (512 - 1 + attrs->ia_size) >> 9;
 
 		/*
 		 * The man page of truncate says if the size changed,