1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 2b10b36d1577..584cf8ac167a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1238,13 +1238,21 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
          * Otherwise, we could get into problems with truncate as
          * ip_alloc_sem is used there to protect against i_size
          * changes.
+         *
+         * XXX: this means the conditional below can probably be removed.
          */
-        status = inode_setattr(inode, attr);
-        if (status < 0) {
-                mlog_errno(status);
-                goto bail_commit;
+        if ((attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) &&
+            attr->ia_size != i_size_read(inode)) {
+                status = vmtruncate(inode, attr->ia_size);
+                if (status) {
+                        mlog_errno(status);
+                        goto bail_commit;
+                }
         }
 
+        setattr_copy(inode, attr);
+        mark_inode_dirty(inode);
+
         status = ocfs2_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode, bh);
         if (status < 0)
                 mlog_errno(status);