diff --git a/fs/ext2/super.c b/fs/ext2/super.c
index 549219d44f1c..900e19cf9ef6 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/super.c
@@ -882,6 +882,7 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~MS_POSIXACL) |
 		((EXT2_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt & EXT2_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL) ?
 		 MS_POSIXACL : 0);
+	sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_CGROUPWB;
 
 	if (le32_to_cpu(es->s_rev_level) == EXT2_GOOD_OLD_REV &&
 	    (EXT2_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, ~0U) ||
@@ -1543,7 +1544,7 @@ static struct file_system_type ext2_fs_type = {
 	.name		= "ext2",
 	.mount		= ext2_mount,
 	.kill_sb	= kill_block_super,
-	.fs_flags	= FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK,
+	.fs_flags	= FS_REQUIRES_DEV,
 };
 MODULE_ALIAS_FS("ext2");
 
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index dfce80869145..a13181a42b9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static inline bool inode_cgwb_enabled(struct inode *inode)
 
 	return bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi) &&
 		(bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK) &&
-		(inode->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK);
+		(inode->i_sb->s_iflags & SB_I_CGROUPWB);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b5e1dcfbc5e3..2c5e33a5b2af 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1241,6 +1241,8 @@ struct mm_struct;
 #define UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW	0x00000008	/* Don't follow symlink on umount */
 #define UMOUNT_UNUSED	0x80000000	/* Flag guaranteed to be unused */
 
+/* sb->s_iflags */
+#define SB_I_CGROUPWB	0x00000001	/* cgroup-aware writeback enabled */
 
 /* Possible states of 'frozen' field */
 enum {
@@ -1279,6 +1281,7 @@ struct super_block {
 	const struct quotactl_ops	*s_qcop;
 	const struct export_operations *s_export_op;
 	unsigned long		s_flags;
+	unsigned long		s_iflags;	/* internal SB_I_* flags */
 	unsigned long		s_magic;
 	struct dentry		*s_root;
 	struct rw_semaphore	s_umount;
@@ -1912,7 +1915,6 @@ struct file_system_type {
 #define FS_HAS_SUBTYPE		4
 #define FS_USERNS_MOUNT		8	/* Can be mounted by userns root */
 #define FS_USERNS_DEV_MOUNT	16 /* A userns mount does not imply MNT_NODEV */
-#define FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK	32	/* Supports cgroup-aware writeback */
 #define FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE	32768	/* FS will handle d_move() during rename() internally. */
 	struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int,
 		       const char *, void *);