diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 53fd2dbb6e9e91..465ca3cfc87e24 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5268,9 +5268,18 @@ static int __ext4_fill_super(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb)
 	 * Get the # of file system overhead blocks from the
 	 * superblock if present.
 	 */
-	if (es->s_overhead_clusters)
-		sbi->s_overhead = le32_to_cpu(es->s_overhead_clusters);
-	else {
+	sbi->s_overhead = le32_to_cpu(es->s_overhead_clusters);
+	/* ignore the precalculated value if it is ridiculous */
+	if (sbi->s_overhead > ext4_blocks_count(es))
+		sbi->s_overhead = 0;
+	/*
+	 * If the bigalloc feature is not enabled recalculating the
+	 * overhead doesn't take long, so we might as well just redo
+	 * it to make sure we are using the correct value.
+	 */
+	if (!ext4_has_feature_bigalloc(sb))
+		sbi->s_overhead = 0;
+	if (sbi->s_overhead == 0) {
 		err = ext4_calculate_overhead(sb);
 		if (err)
 			goto failed_mount_wq;