#endif
 };
 
+/* Max physical block we can addres w/o extents */
+#define EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS       0xFFFFFFFF
+
 /*
  * Structure of an inode on the disk
  */
        unsigned long s_gdb_count;      /* Number of group descriptor blocks */
        unsigned long s_desc_per_block; /* Number of group descriptors per block */
        ext4_group_t s_groups_count;    /* Number of groups in the fs */
+       ext4_group_t s_blockfile_groups;/* Groups acceptable for non-extent files */
        unsigned long s_overhead_last;  /* Last calculated overhead */
        unsigned long s_blocks_last;    /* Last seen block count */
        loff_t s_bitmap_maxbytes;       /* max bytes for bitmap files */
 
  *
  *     Normally this function find the preferred place for block allocation,
  *     returns it.
+ *     Because this is only used for non-extent files, we limit the block nr
+ *     to 32 bits.
  */
 static ext4_fsblk_t ext4_find_goal(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block,
                                   Indirect *partial)
 {
+       ext4_fsblk_t goal;
+
        /*
         * XXX need to get goal block from mballoc's data structures
         */
 
-       return ext4_find_near(inode, partial);
+       goal = ext4_find_near(inode, partial);
+       goal = goal & EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS;
+       return goal;
 }
 
 /**
                if (*err)
                        goto failed_out;
 
+               BUG_ON(current_block + count > EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS);
+
                target -= count;
                /* allocate blocks for indirect blocks */
                while (index < indirect_blks && count) {
                ar.flags = EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA;
 
        current_block = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, &ar, err);
+       BUG_ON(current_block + ar.len > EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS);
 
        if (*err && (target == blks)) {
                /*
 
        sb = ac->ac_sb;
        sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
        ngroups = ext4_get_groups_count(sb);
+       /* non-extent files are limited to low blocks/groups */
+       if (!(EXT4_I(ac->ac_inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+               ngroups = sbi->s_blockfile_groups;
+
        BUG_ON(ac->ac_status == AC_STATUS_FOUND);
 
        /* first, try the goal */
                        ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical >= pa->pa_lstart + pa->pa_len)
                        continue;
 
+               /* non-extent files can't have physical blocks past 2^32 */
+               if (!(EXT4_I(ac->ac_inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) &&
+                       pa->pa_pstart + pa->pa_len > EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS)
+                       continue;
+
                /* found preallocated blocks, use them */
                spin_lock(&pa->pa_lock);
                if (pa->pa_deleted == 0 && pa->pa_free) {
 
                goto failed_mount;
        }
        sbi->s_groups_count = blocks_count;
+       sbi->s_blockfile_groups = min_t(ext4_group_t, sbi->s_groups_count,
+                       (EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS / EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)));
        db_count = (sbi->s_groups_count + EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) - 1) /
                   EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb);
        sbi->s_group_desc = kmalloc(db_count * sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
 
                        get_bh(new_bh);
                } else {
                        /* We need to allocate a new block */
-                       ext4_fsblk_t goal = ext4_group_first_block_no(sb,
+                       ext4_fsblk_t goal, block;
+
+                       goal = ext4_group_first_block_no(sb,
                                                EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_group);
-                       ext4_fsblk_t block = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode,
+
+                       /* non-extent files can't have physical blocks past 2^32 */
+                       if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+                               goal = goal & EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS;
+
+                       block = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode,
                                                  goal, NULL, &error);
                        if (error)
                                goto cleanup;
+
+                       if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+                               BUG_ON(block > EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS);
+
                        ea_idebug(inode, "creating block %d", block);
 
                        new_bh = sb_getblk(sb, block);