diff --git a/fs/jfs/xattr.c b/fs/jfs/xattr.c
index 5324e4e2b9924babb2675451ed074f4a279d2ad4..3bd5ee45f7b3a13cf3dcc65f824fd8dad5ac6960 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/xattr.c
@@ -791,6 +791,19 @@ int __jfs_setxattr(tid_t tid, struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 			/* Completely new ea list */
 			xattr_size = sizeof (struct jfs_ea_list);
 
+		/*
+		 * The size of EA value is limitted by on-disk format up to
+		 *  __le16, there would be an overflow if the size is equal
+		 * to XATTR_SIZE_MAX (65536).  In order to avoid this issue,
+		 * we can pre-checkup the value size against USHRT_MAX, and
+		 * return -E2BIG in this case, which is consistent with the
+		 * VFS setxattr interface.
+		 */
+		if (value_len >= USHRT_MAX) {
+			rc = -E2BIG;
+			goto release;
+		}
+
 		ea = (struct jfs_ea *) ((char *) ealist + xattr_size);
 		ea->flag = 0;
 		ea->namelen = namelen;
@@ -805,7 +818,7 @@ int __jfs_setxattr(tid_t tid, struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 	/* DEBUG - If we did this right, these number match */
 	if (xattr_size != new_size) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR
-		       "jfs_xsetattr: xattr_size = %d, new_size = %d\n",
+		       "__jfs_setxattr: xattr_size = %d, new_size = %d\n",
 		       xattr_size, new_size);
 
 		rc = -EINVAL;