diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
index 19712a7d145..02b6e7af8ed 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
@@ -3631,8 +3631,6 @@ int ocfs2_commit_truncate(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 
 	mlog_entry_void();
 
-	down_write(&OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_alloc_sem);
-
 	new_highest_cpos = ocfs2_clusters_for_bytes(osb->sb,
 						     i_size_read(inode));
 
@@ -3754,7 +3752,6 @@ start:
 	goto start;
 
 bail:
-	up_write(&OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_alloc_sem);
 
 	ocfs2_schedule_truncate_log_flush(osb, 1);
 
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 4979b667571..566f9b70ec9 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -326,9 +326,6 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_file(struct inode *inode,
 		   (unsigned long long)OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_blkno,
 		   (unsigned long long)new_i_size);
 
-	unmap_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping, new_i_size + PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0, 1);
-	truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, new_i_size);
-
 	fe = (struct ocfs2_dinode *) di_bh->b_data;
 	if (!OCFS2_IS_VALID_DINODE(fe)) {
 		OCFS2_RO_ON_INVALID_DINODE(inode->i_sb, fe);
@@ -363,16 +360,23 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_file(struct inode *inode,
 	if (new_i_size == le64_to_cpu(fe->i_size))
 		goto bail;
 
+	down_write(&OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_alloc_sem);
+
 	/* 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) {
+		up_write(&OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_alloc_sem);
+
 		mlog_errno(status);
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
+	unmap_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping, new_i_size + PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0, 1);
+	truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, new_i_size);
+
 	/* 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
@@ -399,6 +403,8 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_file(struct inode *inode,
 bail_unlock_data:
 	ocfs2_data_unlock(inode, 1);
 
+	up_write(&OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_alloc_sem);
+
 bail:
 
 	mlog_exit(status);