diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/file.c b/fs/ntfs3/file.c
index cd69cbd0aaae..f14d21b6c6d3 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/file.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static int ntfs_truncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t new_size)
 }
 
 /*
- * ntfs_fallocate
+ * ntfs_fallocate - file_operations::ntfs_fallocate
  *
  * Preallocate space for a file. This implements ntfs's fallocate file
  * operation, which gets called from sys_fallocate system call. User
@@ -553,6 +553,8 @@ static long ntfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t vbo, loff_t len)
 		ni_lock(ni);
 		err = attr_collapse_range(ni, vbo, len);
 		ni_unlock(ni);
+		if (err)
+			goto out;
 	} else if (mode & FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE) {
 		/* Check new size. */
 		err = inode_newsize_ok(inode, new_size);