as this is the only way to make sure the region is allocated. Fix the conditional that was wrong and only tried to make already non-sparse files non-sparse. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c index d7ade739cde1..03ab28c341c4 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c @@ -3859,7 +3859,7 @@ static long smb3_simple_falloc(struct file *file, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, if (rc) goto out; - if ((cifsi->cifsAttrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE) == 0) + if (cifsi->cifsAttrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE) smb2_set_sparse(xid, tcon, cfile, inode, false); eof = cpu_to_le64(off + len); -- 2.35.3