diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d31a09aa1c..dc64b24c94 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - Derived `Ord`, `PartialOrd` for `unistd::Pid` (#[1189](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1189))
 
 ### Changed
+- Changed `fallocate` return type from `c_int` to `()` (#[1201](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1201))
 ### Fixed
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/src/fcntl.rs b/src/fcntl.rs
index 1d66eb75d4..773d79913e 100644
--- a/src/fcntl.rs
+++ b/src/fcntl.rs
@@ -468,9 +468,9 @@ libc_bitflags!(
 /// Allows the caller to directly manipulate the allocated disk space for the
 /// file referred to by fd.
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux"))]
-pub fn fallocate(fd: RawFd, mode: FallocateFlags, offset: libc::off_t, len: libc::off_t) -> Result<c_int> {
+pub fn fallocate(fd: RawFd, mode: FallocateFlags, offset: libc::off_t, len: libc::off_t) -> Result<()> {
     let res = unsafe { libc::fallocate(fd, mode.bits(), offset, len) };
-    Errno::result(res)
+    Errno::result(res).map(drop)
 }
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux",