diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
index 720e9f94957e..b3425477a85d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
@@ -1010,6 +1010,25 @@ static int ocfs2_sync_local_to_main(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 		start = bit_off + 1;
 	}
 
+	/* clear the contiguous bits until the end boundary */
+	if (count) {
+		blkno = la_start_blk +
+			ocfs2_clusters_to_blocks(osb->sb,
+					start - count);
+
+		trace_ocfs2_sync_local_to_main_free(
+				count, start - count,
+				(unsigned long long)la_start_blk,
+				(unsigned long long)blkno);
+
+		status = ocfs2_release_clusters(handle,
+				main_bm_inode,
+				main_bm_bh, blkno,
+				count);
+		if (status < 0)
+			mlog_errno(status);
+	}
+
 bail:
 	if (status)
 		mlog_errno(status);