diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 1c58859aa592..cc11097f1176 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -1098,6 +1098,16 @@ static void jbd2_stats_proc_exit(journal_t *journal)
 	remove_proc_entry(journal->j_devname, proc_jbd2_stats);
 }
 
+/* Minimum size of descriptor tag */
+static int jbd2_min_tag_size(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Tag with 32-bit block numbers does not use last four bytes of the
+	 * structure
+	 */
+	return sizeof(journal_block_tag_t) - 4;
+}
+
 /*
  * Management for journal control blocks: functions to create and
  * destroy journal_t structures, and to initialise and read existing
@@ -1156,7 +1166,8 @@ static journal_t *journal_init_common(struct block_device *bdev,
 	journal->j_fs_dev = fs_dev;
 	journal->j_blk_offset = start;
 	journal->j_maxlen = len;
-	n = journal->j_blocksize / sizeof(journal_block_tag_t);
+	/* We need enough buffers to write out full descriptor block. */
+	n = journal->j_blocksize / jbd2_min_tag_size();
 	journal->j_wbufsize = n;
 	journal->j_wbuf = kmalloc_array(n, sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
 					GFP_KERNEL);