1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index bef194a14437..60818ed1f6a9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1584,10 +1584,12 @@ ext4_can_extents_be_merged(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *ex1,
         unsigned short ext1_ee_len, ext2_ee_len, max_len;
 
         /*
-         * Make sure that either both extents are uninitialized, or
-         * both are _not_.
+         * Make sure that both extents are initialized. We don't merge
+         * uninitialized extents so that we can be sure that end_io code has
+         * the extent that was written properly split out and conversion to
+         * initialized is trivial.
          */
-        if (ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex1) ^ ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex2))
+        if (ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex1) || ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex2))
                 return 0;
 
         if (ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex1))