diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
index c758ff41b63863fb96631b917307e3684e97edb6..7fea94ebda573ca2f7554e9a3e5861a2ba13b0c3 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
@@ -3632,7 +3632,7 @@ 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);