unsigned int newdepth;
                /* If extent has less than EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN zerout directly */
                if (allocated <= EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN) {
-                       /* Mark first half uninitialized.
+                       /*
+                        * iblock == ee_block is handled by the zerouout
+                        * at the beginning.
+                        * Mark first half uninitialized.
                         * Mark second half initialized and zero out the
                         * initialized extent
                         */
                                ex->ee_len   = orig_ex.ee_len;
                                ext4_ext_store_pblock(ex, ext_pblock(&orig_ex));
                                ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + depth);
-                               /* zeroed the full extent */
+                               /* blocks available from iblock */
                                return allocated;
 
                        } else if (err)
                                        err = PTR_ERR(path);
                                        return err;
                                }
+                               /* get the second half extent details */
                                ex = path[depth].p_ext;
                                err = ext4_ext_get_access(handle, inode,
                                                                path + depth);
                        ext4_ext_store_pblock(ex, ext_pblock(&orig_ex));
                        ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + depth);
                        /* zeroed the full extent */
+                       /* blocks available from iblock */
                        return allocated;
 
                } else if (err)
                 */
                orig_ex.ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ee_len -
                                                ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex3));
-               if (newdepth != depth) {
-                       depth = newdepth;
-                       ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
-                       path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, iblock, path);
-                       if (IS_ERR(path)) {
-                               err = PTR_ERR(path);
-                               goto out;
-                       }
-                       eh = path[depth].p_hdr;
-                       ex = path[depth].p_ext;
-                       if (ex2 != &newex)
-                               ex2 = ex;
-
-                       err = ext4_ext_get_access(handle, inode, path + depth);
-                       if (err)
-                               goto out;
+               depth = newdepth;
+               ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
+               path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, iblock, path);
+               if (IS_ERR(path)) {
+                       err = PTR_ERR(path);
+                       goto out;
                }
+               eh = path[depth].p_hdr;
+               ex = path[depth].p_ext;
+               if (ex2 != &newex)
+                       ex2 = ex;
+
+               err = ext4_ext_get_access(handle, inode, path + depth);
+               if (err)
+                       goto out;
+
                allocated = max_blocks;
 
                /* If extent has less than EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN and we are trying
                        ext4_ext_store_pblock(ex, ext_pblock(&orig_ex));
                        ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + depth);
                        /* zero out the first half */
+                       /* blocks available from iblock */
                        return allocated;
                }
        }