diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
index f703204fb185..1eecaeb4beb4 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
@@ -3563,6 +3563,119 @@ static long smb3_punch_hole(struct file *file, struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
 	return rc;
 }
 
+static int smb3_simple_fallocate_write_range(unsigned int xid,
+					     struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
+					     struct cifsFileInfo *cfile,
+					     loff_t off, loff_t len,
+					     char *buf)
+{
+	struct cifs_io_parms io_parms = {0};
+	int nbytes;
+	struct kvec iov[2];
+
+	io_parms.netfid = cfile->fid.netfid;
+	io_parms.pid = current->tgid;
+	io_parms.tcon = tcon;
+	io_parms.persistent_fid = cfile->fid.persistent_fid;
+	io_parms.volatile_fid = cfile->fid.volatile_fid;
+	io_parms.offset = off;
+	io_parms.length = len;
+
+	/* iov[0] is reserved for smb header */
+	iov[1].iov_base = buf;
+	iov[1].iov_len = io_parms.length;
+	return SMB2_write(xid, &io_parms, &nbytes, iov, 1);
+}
+
+static int smb3_simple_fallocate_range(unsigned int xid,
+				       struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
+				       struct cifsFileInfo *cfile,
+				       loff_t off, loff_t len)
+{
+	struct file_allocated_range_buffer in_data, *out_data = NULL, *tmp_data;
+	u32 out_data_len;
+	char *buf = NULL;
+	loff_t l;
+	int rc;
+
+	in_data.file_offset = cpu_to_le64(off);
+	in_data.length = cpu_to_le64(len);
+	rc = SMB2_ioctl(xid, tcon, cfile->fid.persistent_fid,
+			cfile->fid.volatile_fid,
+			FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, true,
+			(char *)&in_data, sizeof(in_data),
+			1024 * sizeof(struct file_allocated_range_buffer),
+			(char **)&out_data, &out_data_len);
+	if (rc)
+		goto out;
+	/*
+	 * It is already all allocated
+	 */
+	if (out_data_len == 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	buf = kzalloc(1024 * 1024, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (buf == NULL) {
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	tmp_data = out_data;
+	while (len) {
+		/*
+		 * The rest of the region is unmapped so write it all.
+		 */
+		if (out_data_len == 0) {
+			rc = smb3_simple_fallocate_write_range(xid, tcon,
+					       cfile, off, len, buf);
+			goto out;
+		}
+
+		if (out_data_len < sizeof(struct file_allocated_range_buffer)) {
+			rc = -EINVAL;
+			goto out;
+		}
+
+		if (off < le64_to_cpu(tmp_data->file_offset)) {
+			/*
+			 * We are at a hole. Write until the end of the region
+			 * or until the next allocated data,
+			 * whichever comes next.
+			 */
+			l = le64_to_cpu(tmp_data->file_offset) - off;
+			if (len < l)
+				l = len;
+			rc = smb3_simple_fallocate_write_range(xid, tcon,
+					       cfile, off, l, buf);
+			if (rc)
+				goto out;
+			off = off + l;
+			len = len - l;
+			if (len == 0)
+				goto out;
+		}
+		/*
+		 * We are at a section of allocated data, just skip forward
+		 * until the end of the data or the end of the region
+		 * we are supposed to fallocate, whichever comes first.
+		 */
+		l = le64_to_cpu(tmp_data->length);
+		if (len < l)
+			l = len;
+		off += l;
+		len -= l;
+
+		tmp_data = &tmp_data[1];
+		out_data_len -= sizeof(struct file_allocated_range_buffer);
+	}
+
+ out:
+	kfree(out_data);
+	kfree(buf);
+	return rc;
+}
+
+
 static long smb3_simple_falloc(struct file *file, struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
 			    loff_t off, loff_t len, bool keep_size)
 {
@@ -3623,6 +3736,26 @@ static long smb3_simple_falloc(struct file *file, struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
 	}
 
 	if ((keep_size == true) || (i_size_read(inode) >= off + len)) {
+		/*
+		 * At this point, we are trying to fallocate an internal
+		 * regions of a sparse file. Since smb2 does not have a
+		 * fallocate command we have two otions on how to emulate this.
+		 * We can either turn the entire file to become non-sparse
+		 * which we only do if the fallocate is for virtually
+		 * the whole file,  or we can overwrite the region with zeroes
+		 * using SMB2_write, which could be prohibitevly expensive
+		 * if len is large.
+		 */
+		/*
+		 * We are only trying to fallocate a small region so
+		 * just write it with zero.
+		 */
+		if (len <= 1024 * 1024) {
+			rc = smb3_simple_fallocate_range(xid, tcon, cfile,
+							 off, len);
+			goto out;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Check if falloc starts within first few pages of file
 		 * and ends within a few pages of the end of file to
