diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index dcc2287433b6..67e7a3caf9ed 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ int ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	BUG_ON(EXT4_JOURNAL(inode) == NULL);
 	jbd_debug(2, "restarting handle %p\n", handle);
 	up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
-	ret = ext4_journal_restart(handle, blocks_for_truncate(inode));
+	ret = ext4_journal_restart(handle, nblocks);
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	ext4_discard_preallocations(inode);