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diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 7ce1d0b19c9..7e106c810c6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -385,6 +385,18 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
block_end = block_start + blocksize;
if (block_start >= len) {
+ /*
+ * Comments copied from block_write_full_page_endio:
+ *
+ * The page straddles i_size. It must be zeroed out on
+ * each and every writepage invocation because it may
+ * be mmapped. "A file is mapped in multiples of the
+ * page size. For a file that is not a multiple of
+ * the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when
+ * mapped, and writes to that region are not written
+ * out to the file."
+ */
+ zero_user_segment(page, block_start, block_end);
clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
continue;