diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 1c6220a..6a13ea6 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * This will intentionally not wind up calling vmtruncate(),
+	 * This will intentionally not wind up calling simple_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
@@ -2118,9 +2118,13 @@
 			 * direct write may have instantiated a few
 			 * blocks outside i_size. Trim these off again.
 			 * Don't need i_size_read because we hold i_mutex.
+			 *
+			 * XXX(hch): this looks buggy because ocfs2 did not
+			 * actually implement ->truncate.  Take a look at
+			 * the new truncate sequence and update this accordingly
 			 */
 			if (*ppos + count > inode->i_size)
-				vmtruncate(inode, inode->i_size);
+				simple_setsize(inode, inode->i_size);
 			ret = written;
 			goto out_dio;
 		}