diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 141573de7a9a4..81868c0bc40ef 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -1620,7 +1620,11 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		}
 
 		brelse (bh);
-		sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize);
+		if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "EXT3-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n",
+				blocksize);
+			goto out_fail;
+		}
 		logic_sb_block = (sb_block * EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE) / blocksize;
 		offset = (sb_block * EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE) % blocksize;
 		bh = sb_bread(sb, logic_sb_block);
diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
index 589b0b355d84d..64134456ed8cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
  * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes
  */
 #define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE		1024
-#define	EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE		4096
-#define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE		  10
+#define	EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE		65536
+#define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE		10
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 # define EXT3_BLOCK_SIZE(s)		((s)->s_blocksize)
 #else