extern int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *, struct ext4_iloc *);
 extern int ext4_inode_attach_jinode(struct inode *inode);
 extern int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inode);
-extern void ext4_truncate(struct inode *);
+extern int ext4_truncate(struct inode *);
 extern int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length);
 extern int ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle_t *, struct inode *, int nblocks);
 extern void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *);
 
                             "couldn't mark inode dirty (err %d)", err);
                goto stop_handle;
        }
-       if (inode->i_blocks)
-               ext4_truncate(inode);
+       if (inode->i_blocks) {
+               err = ext4_truncate(inode);
+               if (err) {
+                       ext4_error(inode->i_sb,
+                                  "couldn't truncate inode %lu (err %d)",
+                                  inode->i_ino, err);
+                       goto stop_handle;
+               }
+       }
 
        /*
         * ext4_ext_truncate() doesn't reserve any slop when it
  * that's fine - as long as they are linked from the inode, the post-crash
  * ext4_truncate() run will find them and release them.
  */
-void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
+int ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 {
        struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
        unsigned int credits;
+       int err = 0;
        handle_t *handle;
        struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 
        trace_ext4_truncate_enter(inode);
 
        if (!ext4_can_truncate(inode))
-               return;
+               return 0;
 
        ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS);
 
 
                ext4_inline_data_truncate(inode, &has_inline);
                if (has_inline)
-                       return;
+                       return 0;
        }
 
        /* If we zero-out tail of the page, we have to create jinode for jbd2 */
        if (inode->i_size & (inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - 1)) {
                if (ext4_inode_attach_jinode(inode) < 0)
-                       return;
+                       return 0;
        }
 
        if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))
                credits = ext4_blocks_for_truncate(inode);
 
        handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_TRUNCATE, credits);
-       if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
-               ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, PTR_ERR(handle));
-               return;
-       }
+       if (IS_ERR(handle))
+               return PTR_ERR(handle);
 
        if (inode->i_size & (inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - 1))
                ext4_block_truncate_page(handle, mapping, inode->i_size);
         * Implication: the file must always be in a sane, consistent
         * truncatable state while each transaction commits.
         */
-       if (ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode))
+       err = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
+       if (err)
                goto out_stop;
 
        down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
        ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 
        trace_ext4_truncate_exit(inode);
+       return err;
 }
 
 /*
                 * in data=journal mode to make pages freeable.
                 */
                truncate_pagecache(inode, inode->i_size);
-               if (shrink)
-                       ext4_truncate(inode);
+               if (shrink) {
+                       rc = ext4_truncate(inode);
+                       if (rc)
+                               error = rc;
+               }
                up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
        }
 
-       if (!rc) {
+       if (!error) {
                setattr_copy(inode, attr);
                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
        }
        if (orphan && inode->i_nlink)
                ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
 
-       if (!rc && (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
+       if (!error && (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
                rc = posix_acl_chmod(inode, inode->i_mode);
 
 err_out:
 
                                struct ext4_super_block *es)
 {
        unsigned int s_flags = sb->s_flags;
-       int nr_orphans = 0, nr_truncates = 0;
+       int ret, nr_orphans = 0, nr_truncates = 0;
 #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
        int i;
 #endif
                                  inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
                        inode_lock(inode);
                        truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, inode->i_size);
-                       ext4_truncate(inode);
+                       ret = ext4_truncate(inode);
+                       if (ret)
+                               ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret);
                        inode_unlock(inode);
                        nr_truncates++;
                } else {