diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 29f020c4b2d0ddaf758c21ddb339f43cb046a11f..6a1295815bd2445c95398450ec01a7614404584a 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -2057,13 +2057,11 @@ static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t start,
 		return error;
 
 	/*
-	 * Invalidate again; if someone wandered in and dirtied a page,
-	 * the caller will be given -EBUSY.  The third argument is
-	 * inclusive, so the rounding here is safe.
+	 * Invalidate the page cache again; if someone wandered in and dirtied
+	 * a page, we just discard it - userspace has no way of knowing whether
+	 * the write happened before or after discard completing...
 	 */
-	return invalidate_inode_pages2_range(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
-					     start >> PAGE_SHIFT,
-					     end >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	return truncate_bdev_range(bdev, file->f_mode, start, end);
 }
 
 const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {