diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
index 0c1af2dd9069..df9ba3729d1f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
@@ -3791,7 +3791,7 @@ static long smb3_simple_falloc(struct file *file, struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
 		if (rc)
 			goto out;
 
-		if ((cifsi->cifsAttrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE) == 0)
+		if (cifsi->cifsAttrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE)
 			smb2_set_sparse(xid, tcon, cfile, inode, false);
 
 		eof = cpu_to_le64(off + len);