1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 34e903a6a46b..581eb451a41a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -260,6 +260,17 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_file(struct inode *inode,
         if (new_i_size == le64_to_cpu(fe->i_size))
                 goto bail;
 
+        /* This forces other nodes to sync and drop their pages. Do
+         * this even if we have a truncate without allocation change -
+         * ocfs2 cluster sizes can be much greater than page size, so
+         * we have to truncate them anyway.  */
+        status = ocfs2_data_lock(inode, 1);
+        if (status < 0) {
+                mlog_errno(status);
+                goto bail;
+        }
+        ocfs2_data_unlock(inode, 1);
+
         if (le32_to_cpu(fe->i_clusters) ==
             ocfs2_clusters_for_bytes(osb->sb, new_i_size)) {
                 mlog(0, "fe->i_clusters = %u, so we do a simple truncate\n",
@@ -272,14 +283,6 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_file(struct inode *inode,
                 goto bail;
         }
 
-        /* This forces other nodes to sync and drop their pages */
-        status = ocfs2_data_lock(inode, 1);
-        if (status < 0) {
-                mlog_errno(status);
-                goto bail;
-        }
-        ocfs2_data_unlock(inode, 1);
-
         /* alright, we're going to need to do a full blown alloc size
          * change. Orphan the inode so that recovery can complete the
          * truncate if necessary. This does the task of marking