diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 1ca0f546c466..ab7010dde1b5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1624,6 +1624,11 @@ static int ext4_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		goto out_fail;
 	}
 
+	if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n", blocksize);
+		goto out_fail;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * The ext4 superblock will not be buffer aligned for other than 1kB
 	 * block sizes.  We need to calculate the offset from buffer start.
diff --git a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
index 97dd409d5f4a..dfe4487fc739 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@
  * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes
  */
 #define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE		1024
-#define	EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE		4096
-#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE		  10
+#define	EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE		65536
+#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE		10
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 # define EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE(s)		((s)->s_blocksize)
 #else