diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index d49b56af4..d2f48e918 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 * Fix the bug that iterator may skip keys
+* Remove calling fallocate with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag to circumvent a kernel bug that changes file size after this call on XFS
 
 ## 5.2.0 (02/08/2017)
 ### Public API Change
diff --git a/util/io_posix.cc b/util/io_posix.cc
index b61f4b38f..00ceb38db 100644
--- a/util/io_posix.cc
+++ b/util/io_posix.cc
@@ -751,29 +751,6 @@ Status PosixWritableFile::Close() {
     // but it will be nice to log these errors.
     int dummy __attribute__((unused));
     dummy = ftruncate(fd_, filesize_);
-#if defined(ROCKSDB_FALLOCATE_PRESENT) && !defined(TRAVIS)
-    // in some file systems, ftruncate only trims trailing space if the
-    // new file size is smaller than the current size. Calling fallocate
-    // with FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag to explicitly release these unused
-    // blocks. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is supported on at least the following
-    // filesystems:
-    //   XFS (since Linux 2.6.38)
-    //   ext4 (since Linux 3.0)
-    //   Btrfs (since Linux 3.7)
-    //   tmpfs (since Linux 3.5)
-    // We ignore error since failure of this operation does not affect
-    // correctness.
-    // TRAVIS - this code does not work on TRAVIS filesystems.
-    // the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE option is expected to not change the size
-    // of the file, but it does. Simple strace report will show that.
-    // While we work with Travis-CI team to figure out if this is a
-    // quirk of Docker/AUFS, we will comment this out.
-    IOSTATS_TIMER_GUARD(allocate_nanos);
-    if (allow_fallocate_) {
-      fallocate(fd_, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, filesize_,
-                block_size * last_allocated_block - filesize_);
-    }
-#endif
   }
 
   if (close(fd_) < 0) {