diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 5c2dd70f924b..30e10f2bc852 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 885e353c7427db7b60692789741b34e605b0b69b
+refs/heads/master: 972fbf779832e5ad15effa7712789aeff9224c37
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext3/resize.c b/trunk/fs/ext3/resize.c
index 77278e947e94..78fdf3836370 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext3/resize.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext3/resize.c
@@ -790,7 +790,8 @@ int ext3_group_add(struct super_block *sb, struct ext3_new_group_data *input)
 
 	if (reserved_gdb || gdb_off == 0) {
 		if (!EXT3_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb,
-					     EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE)){
+					     EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE)
+		    || !le16_to_cpu(es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks)) {
 			ext3_warning(sb, __func__,
 				     "No reserved GDT blocks, can't resize");
 			return -EPERM;