diff --git a/cursor/os-compatibility.c b/cursor/os-compatibility.c
index 002bb5cd88c5063a0c5f8d41e938b859ce4f7aaf..9eac22978863ffe0350380a16b80e6feb49405b3 100644
--- a/cursor/os-compatibility.c
+++ b/cursor/os-compatibility.c
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ os_create_anonymous_file(off_t size)
 	const char *path;
 	char *name;
 	int fd;
-	int ret;
 
 #ifdef HAVE_MEMFD_CREATE
 	fd = memfd_create("wayland-cursor", MFD_CLOEXEC | MFD_ALLOW_SEALING);
@@ -155,25 +154,30 @@ os_create_anonymous_file(off_t size)
 			return -1;
 	}
 
+	if (os_resize_anonymous_file(fd, size) < 0) {
+		close(fd);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return fd;
+}
+
+int
+os_resize_anonymous_file(int fd, off_t size)
+{
 #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE
 	/* 
 	 * Filesystems that do support fallocate will return EINVAL or
 	 * EOPNOTSUPP. In this case we need to fall back to ftruncate
 	 */
-	ret = posix_fallocate(fd, 0, size);
-	if (ret == 0) {
-		return fd;
-	} else if (ret != EINVAL && ret != EOPNOTSUPP) {
-		close(fd);
-		errno = ret;
+	errno = posix_fallocate(fd, 0, size);
+	if (errno == 0)
+		return 0;
+	else if (errno != EINVAL && errno != EOPNOTSUPP)
 		return -1;
-	}
 #endif
-	ret = ftruncate(fd, size);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		close(fd);
+	if (ftruncate(fd, size) < 0)
 		return -1;
-	}
 
-	return fd;
+	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/cursor/os-compatibility.h b/cursor/os-compatibility.h
index d0e69acd939e6928cd9cf3321ffad70a71fdb163..fdfeb78b143309915956de3ea92303776a3743b0 100644
--- a/cursor/os-compatibility.h
+++ b/cursor/os-compatibility.h
@@ -31,4 +31,7 @@
 int
 os_create_anonymous_file(off_t size);
 
+int
+os_resize_anonymous_file(int fd, off_t size);
+
 #endif /* OS_COMPATIBILITY_H */
diff --git a/cursor/wayland-cursor.c b/cursor/wayland-cursor.c
index ca5be8ddb4b45261f8af6a9fe74e0bd68764dce3..4e2dc5020a5376f9bc570dbbc4c2a30dc7d14222 100644
--- a/cursor/wayland-cursor.c
+++ b/cursor/wayland-cursor.c
@@ -83,17 +83,7 @@ err_free:
 static int
 shm_pool_resize(struct shm_pool *pool, int size)
 {
-#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE
-	/* 
-	 * Filesystems that do support fallocate will return EINVAL or
-	 * EOPNOTSUPP. In this case we need to fall back to ftruncate
-	 */
-	errno = posix_fallocate(pool->fd, 0, size);
-	if (errno != 0 && errno != EINVAL && errno != EOPNOTSUPP)
-		return 0;
-#endif
-
-	if (ftruncate(pool->fd, size) < 0)
+	if (os_resize_anonymous_file(pool->fd, size) < 0)
 		return 0;
 
 	wl_shm_pool_resize(pool->pool, size);