diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index bf660aa7a9e0..2ab91815f52d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1555,7 +1555,6 @@ enum {
 	EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND,		/* No space for expansion */
 	EXT4_STATE_DA_ALLOC_CLOSE,	/* Alloc DA blks on close */
 	EXT4_STATE_EXT_MIGRATE,		/* Inode is migrating */
-	EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN,	/* need convert on dio done*/
 	EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY,		/* File just added to dir */
 	EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA,	/* may have in-inode data */
 	EXT4_STATE_EXT_PRECACHED,	/* extents have been precached */
@@ -2522,8 +2521,6 @@ int ext4_get_block_unwritten(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 			     struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create);
 int ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 		   struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create);
-int ext4_dio_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
-		       struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create);
 int ext4_da_get_block_prep(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 			   struct buffer_head *bh, int create);
 int ext4_walk_page_buffers(handle_t *handle,
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 92266a2da7d6..cfff7d34b438 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1755,13 +1755,11 @@ ext4_can_extents_be_merged(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *ex1,
 		return 0;
 	/*
 	 * The check for IO to unwritten extent is somewhat racy as we
-	 * increment i_unwritten / set EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN only after
-	 * dropping i_data_sem. But reserved blocks should save us in that
-	 * case.
+	 * increment i_unwritten only after dropping i_data_sem. But
+	 * reserved blocks should save us in that case.
 	 */
 	if (ext4_ext_is_unwritten(ex1) &&
-	    (ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN) ||
-	     atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten) ||
+	    (atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten) ||
 	     (ext1_ee_len + ext2_ee_len > EXT_UNWRITTEN_MAX_LEN)))
 		return 0;
 #ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index d74576821676..3736dbf28d0a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -156,13 +156,6 @@ static int ext4_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void ext4_unwritten_wait(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	wait_queue_head_t *wq = ext4_ioend_wq(inode);
-
-	wait_event(*wq, (atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten) == 0));
-}
-
 /*
  * This tests whether the IO in question is block-aligned or not.
  * Ext4 utilizes unwritten extents when hole-filling during direct IO, and they
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 9155a8a6eb0b..15715d22808d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -826,136 +826,6 @@ int ext4_get_block_unwritten(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 /* Maximum number of blocks we map for direct IO at once. */
 #define DIO_MAX_BLOCKS 4096
 
-/*
- * Get blocks function for the cases that need to start a transaction -
- * generally difference cases of direct IO and DAX IO. It also handles retries
- * in case of ENOSPC.
- */
-static int ext4_get_block_trans(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
-				struct buffer_head *bh_result, int flags)
-{
-	int dio_credits;
-	handle_t *handle;
-	int retries = 0;
-	int ret;
-
-	/* Trim mapping request to maximum we can map at once for DIO */
-	if (bh_result->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits > DIO_MAX_BLOCKS)
-		bh_result->b_size = DIO_MAX_BLOCKS << inode->i_blkbits;
-	dio_credits = ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode,
-				      bh_result->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits);
-retry:
-	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MAP_BLOCKS, dio_credits);
-	if (IS_ERR(handle))
-		return PTR_ERR(handle);
-
-	ret = _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh_result, flags);
-	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-
-	if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
-		goto retry;
-	return ret;
-}
-
-/* Get block function for DIO reads and writes to inodes without extents */
-int ext4_dio_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
-		       struct buffer_head *bh, int create)
-{
-	/* We don't expect handle for direct IO */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_journal_current_handle());
-
-	if (!create)
-		return _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh, 0);
-	return ext4_get_block_trans(inode, iblock, bh, EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE);
-}
-
-/*
- * Get block function for AIO DIO writes when we create unwritten extent if
- * blocks are not allocated yet. The extent will be converted to written
- * after IO is complete.
- */
-static int ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_async(struct inode *inode,
-		sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_result,	int create)
-{
-	int ret;
-
-	/* We don't expect handle for direct IO */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_journal_current_handle());
-
-	ret = ext4_get_block_trans(inode, iblock, bh_result,
-				   EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT);
-
-	/*
-	 * When doing DIO using unwritten extents, we need io_end to convert
-	 * unwritten extents to written on IO completion. We allocate io_end
-	 * once we spot unwritten extent and store it in b_private. Generic
-	 * DIO code keeps b_private set and furthermore passes the value to
-	 * our completion callback in 'private' argument.
-	 */
-	if (!ret && buffer_unwritten(bh_result)) {
-		if (!bh_result->b_private) {
-			ext4_io_end_t *io_end;
-
-			io_end = ext4_init_io_end(inode, GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (!io_end)
-				return -ENOMEM;
-			bh_result->b_private = io_end;
-			ext4_set_io_unwritten_flag(inode, io_end);
-		}
-		set_buffer_defer_completion(bh_result);
-	}
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
-/*
- * Get block function for non-AIO DIO writes when we create unwritten extent if
- * blocks are not allocated yet. The extent will be converted to written
- * after IO is complete by ext4_direct_IO_write().
- */
-static int ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_sync(struct inode *inode,
-		sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_result,	int create)
-{
-	int ret;
-
-	/* We don't expect handle for direct IO */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_journal_current_handle());
-
-	ret = ext4_get_block_trans(inode, iblock, bh_result,
-				   EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT);
-
-	/*
-	 * Mark inode as having pending DIO writes to unwritten extents.
-	 * ext4_direct_IO_write() checks this flag and converts extents to
-	 * written.
-	 */
-	if (!ret && buffer_unwritten(bh_result))
-		ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static int ext4_dio_get_block_overwrite(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
-		   struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create)
-{
-	int ret;
-
-	ext4_debug("ext4_dio_get_block_overwrite: inode %lu, create flag %d\n",
-		   inode->i_ino, create);
-	/* We don't expect handle for direct IO */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_journal_current_handle());
-
-	ret = _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh_result, 0);
-	/*
-	 * Blocks should have been preallocated! ext4_file_write_iter() checks
-	 * that.
-	 */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer_mapped(bh_result) || buffer_unwritten(bh_result));
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
-
 /*
  * `handle' can be NULL if create is zero
  */
@@ -3641,268 +3511,6 @@ const struct iomap_ops ext4_iomap_ops = {
 	.iomap_end		= ext4_iomap_end,
 };
 
-static int ext4_end_io_dio(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
-			    ssize_t size, void *private)
-{
-        ext4_io_end_t *io_end = private;
-
-	/* if not async direct IO just return */
-	if (!io_end)
-		return 0;
-
-	ext_debug("ext4_end_io_dio(): io_end 0x%p "
-		  "for inode %lu, iocb 0x%p, offset %llu, size %zd\n",
-		  io_end, io_end->inode->i_ino, iocb, offset, size);
-
-	/*
-	 * Error during AIO DIO. We cannot convert unwritten extents as the
-	 * data was not written. Just clear the unwritten flag and drop io_end.
-	 */
-	if (size <= 0) {
-		ext4_clear_io_unwritten_flag(io_end);
-		size = 0;
-	}
-	io_end->offset = offset;
-	io_end->size = size;
-	ext4_put_io_end(io_end);
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/*
- * Handling of direct IO writes.
- *
- * For ext4 extent files, ext4 will do direct-io write even to holes,
- * preallocated extents, and those write extend the file, no need to
- * fall back to buffered IO.
- *
- * For holes, we fallocate those blocks, mark them as unwritten
- * If those blocks were preallocated, we mark sure they are split, but
- * still keep the range to write as unwritten.
- *
- * The unwritten extents will be converted to written when DIO is completed.
- * For async direct IO, since the IO may still pending when return, we
- * set up an end_io call back function, which will do the conversion
- * when async direct IO completed.
- *
- * If the O_DIRECT write will extend the file then add this inode to the
- * orphan list.  So recovery will truncate it back to the original size
- * if the machine crashes during the write.
- *
- */
-static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
-{
-	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
-	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
-	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
-	ssize_t ret;
-	loff_t offset = iocb->ki_pos;
-	size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter);
-	int overwrite = 0;
-	get_block_t *get_block_func = NULL;
-	int dio_flags = 0;
-	loff_t final_size = offset + count;
-	int orphan = 0;
-	handle_t *handle;
-
-	if (final_size > inode->i_size || final_size > ei->i_disksize) {
-		/* Credits for sb + inode write */
-		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
-		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
-			goto out;
-		}
-		ret = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
-		if (ret) {
-			ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-			goto out;
-		}
-		orphan = 1;
-		ext4_update_i_disksize(inode, inode->i_size);
-		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-	}
-
-	BUG_ON(iocb->private == NULL);
-
-	/*
-	 * Make all waiters for direct IO properly wait also for extent
-	 * conversion. This also disallows race between truncate() and
-	 * overwrite DIO as i_dio_count needs to be incremented under i_mutex.
-	 */
-	inode_dio_begin(inode);
-
-	/* If we do a overwrite dio, i_mutex locking can be released */
-	overwrite = *((int *)iocb->private);
-
-	if (overwrite)
-		inode_unlock(inode);
-
-	/*
-	 * For extent mapped files we could direct write to holes and fallocate.
-	 *
-	 * Allocated blocks to fill the hole are marked as unwritten to prevent
-	 * parallel buffered read to expose the stale data before DIO complete
-	 * the data IO.
-	 *
-	 * As to previously fallocated extents, ext4 get_block will just simply
-	 * mark the buffer mapped but still keep the extents unwritten.
-	 *
-	 * For non AIO case, we will convert those unwritten extents to written
-	 * after return back from blockdev_direct_IO. That way we save us from
-	 * allocating io_end structure and also the overhead of offloading
-	 * the extent convertion to a workqueue.
-	 *
-	 * For async DIO, the conversion needs to be deferred when the
-	 * IO is completed. The ext4 end_io callback function will be
-	 * called to take care of the conversion work.  Here for async
-	 * case, we allocate an io_end structure to hook to the iocb.
-	 */
-	iocb->private = NULL;
-	if (overwrite)
-		get_block_func = ext4_dio_get_block_overwrite;
-	else if (!ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS) ||
-		   round_down(offset, i_blocksize(inode)) >= inode->i_size) {
-		get_block_func = ext4_dio_get_block;
-		dio_flags = DIO_LOCKING | DIO_SKIP_HOLES;
-	} else if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
-		get_block_func = ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_sync;
-		dio_flags = DIO_LOCKING;
-	} else {
-		get_block_func = ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_async;
-		dio_flags = DIO_LOCKING;
-	}
-	ret = __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iter,
-				   get_block_func, ext4_end_io_dio, NULL,
-				   dio_flags);
-
-	if (ret > 0 && !overwrite && ext4_test_inode_state(inode,
-						EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN)) {
-		int err;
-		/*
-		 * for non AIO case, since the IO is already
-		 * completed, we could do the conversion right here
-		 */
-		err = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(NULL, inode,
-						     offset, ret);
-		if (err < 0)
-			ret = err;
-		ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
-	}
-
-	inode_dio_end(inode);
-	/* take i_mutex locking again if we do a ovewrite dio */
-	if (overwrite)
-		inode_lock(inode);
-
-	if (ret < 0 && final_size > inode->i_size)
-		ext4_truncate_failed_write(inode);
-
-	/* Handle extending of i_size after direct IO write */
-	if (orphan) {
-		int err;
-
-		/* Credits for sb + inode write */
-		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
-		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
-			/*
-			 * We wrote the data but cannot extend
-			 * i_size. Bail out. In async io case, we do
-			 * not return error here because we have
-			 * already submmitted the corresponding
-			 * bio. Returning error here makes the caller
-			 * think that this IO is done and failed
-			 * resulting in race with bio's completion
-			 * handler.
-			 */
-			if (!ret)
-				ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
-			if (inode->i_nlink)
-				ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
-
-			goto out;
-		}
-		if (inode->i_nlink)
-			ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
-		if (ret > 0) {
-			loff_t end = offset + ret;
-			if (end > inode->i_size || end > ei->i_disksize) {
-				ext4_update_i_disksize(inode, end);
-				if (end > inode->i_size)
-					i_size_write(inode, end);
-				/*
-				 * We're going to return a positive `ret'
-				 * here due to non-zero-length I/O, so there's
-				 * no way of reporting error returns from
-				 * ext4_mark_inode_dirty() to userspace.  So
-				 * ignore it.
-				 */
-				ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
-			}
-		}
-		err = ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-		if (ret == 0)
-			ret = err;
-	}
-out:
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
-{
-	struct address_space *mapping = iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping;
-	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
-	size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter);
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	/*
-	 * Shared inode_lock is enough for us - it protects against concurrent
-	 * writes & truncates and since we take care of writing back page cache,
-	 * we are protected against page writeback as well.
-	 */
-	inode_lock_shared(inode);
-	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, iocb->ki_pos,
-					   iocb->ki_pos + count - 1);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out_unlock;
-	ret = __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev,
-				   iter, ext4_dio_get_block, NULL, NULL, 0);
-out_unlock:
-	inode_unlock_shared(inode);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
-{
-	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
-	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
-	size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter);
-	loff_t offset = iocb->ki_pos;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION
-	if (IS_ENCRYPTED(inode) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
-		return 0;
-#endif
-
-	/*
-	 * If we are doing data journalling we don't support O_DIRECT
-	 */
-	if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
-		return 0;
-
-	/* Let buffer I/O handle the inline data case. */
-	if (ext4_has_inline_data(inode))
-		return 0;
-
-	trace_ext4_direct_IO_enter(inode, offset, count, iov_iter_rw(iter));
-	if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ)
-		ret = ext4_direct_IO_read(iocb, iter);
-	else
-		ret = ext4_direct_IO_write(iocb, iter);
-	trace_ext4_direct_IO_exit(inode, offset, count, iov_iter_rw(iter), ret);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 /*
  * Pages can be marked dirty completely asynchronously from ext4's journalling
  * activity.  By filemap_sync_pte(), try_to_unmap_one(), etc.  We cannot do
@@ -3940,7 +3548,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_aops = {
 	.bmap			= ext4_bmap,
 	.invalidatepage		= ext4_invalidatepage,
 	.releasepage		= ext4_releasepage,
-	.direct_IO		= ext4_direct_IO,
+	.direct_IO		= noop_direct_IO,
 	.migratepage		= buffer_migrate_page,
 	.is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
 	.error_remove_page	= generic_error_remove_page,
@@ -3957,7 +3565,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_journalled_aops = {
 	.bmap			= ext4_bmap,
 	.invalidatepage		= ext4_journalled_invalidatepage,
 	.releasepage		= ext4_releasepage,
-	.direct_IO		= ext4_direct_IO,
+	.direct_IO		= noop_direct_IO,
 	.is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
 	.error_remove_page	= generic_error_remove_page,
 };
@@ -3973,7 +3581,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_da_aops = {
 	.bmap			= ext4_bmap,
 	.invalidatepage		= ext4_da_invalidatepage,
 	.releasepage		= ext4_releasepage,
-	.direct_IO		= ext4_direct_IO,
+	.direct_IO		= noop_direct_IO,
 	.migratepage		= buffer_migrate_page,
 	.is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
 	.error_remove_page	= generic_error_remove_page,
