diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index fe492e1a3cf..37d313ede15 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1218,24 +1218,6 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * This will intentionally not wind up calling truncate_setsize(),
-	 * since all the work for a size change has been done above.
-	 * 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.
-	 */
-	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);