diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index b67406435fc02763299e8732fa4cf6dfe1d51bf6..8509cbd6d115d9028b0be26dc4da6d2690f09bbc 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ extern struct open_how build_open_how(int flags, umode_t mode);
 extern int build_open_flags(const struct open_how *how, struct open_flags *op);
 struct file *file_close_fd_locked(struct files_struct *files, unsigned fd);
 
+long do_ftruncate(struct file *file, loff_t length, int small);
 long do_sys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, loff_t length, int small);
 int chmod_common(const struct path *path, umode_t mode);
 int do_fchownat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, uid_t user, gid_t group,
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index a84d21e55c391eebdf662c7fa8c9d5b2aef8efd2..0410cb52bb4b73ebe94c9d4b1c9b3d789db06cc7 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -154,49 +154,52 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(truncate, const char __user *, path, compat_off_t, length
 }
 #endif
 
-long do_sys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, loff_t length, int small)
+long do_ftruncate(struct file *file, loff_t length, int small)
 {
 	struct inode *inode;
 	struct dentry *dentry;
-	struct fd f;
 	int error;
 
-	error = -EINVAL;
-	if (length < 0)
-		goto out;
-	error = -EBADF;
-	f = fdget(fd);
-	if (!f.file)
-		goto out;
-
 	/* explicitly opened as large or we are on 64-bit box */
-	if (f.file->f_flags & O_LARGEFILE)
+	if (file->f_flags & O_LARGEFILE)
 		small = 0;
 
-	dentry = f.file->f_path.dentry;
+	dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
 	inode = dentry->d_inode;
-	error = -EINVAL;
-	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || !(f.file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
-		goto out_putf;
+	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || !(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
+		return -EINVAL;
 
-	error = -EINVAL;
 	/* Cannot ftruncate over 2^31 bytes without large file support */
 	if (small && length > MAX_NON_LFS)
-		goto out_putf;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
-	error = -EPERM;
 	/* Check IS_APPEND on real upper inode */
-	if (IS_APPEND(file_inode(f.file)))
-		goto out_putf;
+	if (IS_APPEND(file_inode(file)))
+		return -EPERM;
 	sb_start_write(inode->i_sb);
-	error = security_file_truncate(f.file);
+	error = security_file_truncate(file);
 	if (!error)
-		error = do_truncate(file_mnt_idmap(f.file), dentry, length,
-				    ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_CTIME, f.file);
+		error = do_truncate(file_mnt_idmap(file), dentry, length,
+				    ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_CTIME, file);
 	sb_end_write(inode->i_sb);
-out_putf:
+
+	return error;
+}
+
+long do_sys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, loff_t length, int small)
+{
+	struct fd f;
+	int error;
+
+	if (length < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	f = fdget(fd);
+	if (!f.file)
+		return -EBADF;
+
+	error = do_ftruncate(f.file, length, small);
+
 	fdput(f);
-out:
 	return error;
 }