diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index e204d8aabe7d..0dd9150c0c04 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2495,6 +2495,20 @@ static int ext4_nonda_switch(struct super_block *sb)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* We always reserve for an inode update; the superblock could be there too */
+static int ext4_da_write_credits(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, unsigned len)
+{
+	if (likely(EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb,
+				EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE)))
+		return 1;
+
+	if (pos + len <= 0x7fffffffULL)
+		return 1;
+
+	/* We might need to update the superblock to set LARGE_FILE */
+	return 2;
+}
+
 static int ext4_da_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 			       loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
 			       struct page **pagep, void **fsdata)
@@ -2545,7 +2559,8 @@ retry_grab:
 	 * of file which has an already mapped buffer.
 	 */
 retry_journal:
-	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE, 1);
+	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE,
+				ext4_da_write_credits(inode, pos, len));
 	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 		page_cache_release(page);
 		return PTR_ERR(handle);