diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 1e01fabef130a602ef82e17a6e77f158534c4bd7..71635909df3b55dfb8cfa3d4804e98542e7437d7 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -1264,21 +1264,11 @@ static void __ext2_truncate_blocks(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
 
 static void ext2_truncate_blocks(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
 {
-	/*
-	 * XXX: it seems like a bug here that we don't allow
-	 * IS_APPEND inode to have blocks-past-i_size trimmed off.
-	 * review and fix this.
-	 *
-	 * Also would be nice to be able to handle IO errors and such,
-	 * but that's probably too much to ask.
-	 */
 	if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) ||
 	    S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)))
 		return;
 	if (ext2_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode))
 		return;
-	if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
-		return;
 
 	dax_sem_down_write(EXT2_I(inode));
 	__ext2_truncate_blocks(inode, offset);