diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index f2bc160463b724495dcd5d7beb2cba7ab010e423..07eb6649e4fa1396d80e03186ffd76559b4c6709 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ static int dx_make_map(struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de, unsigned blocksize,
 			ext4fs_dirhash(de->name, de->name_len, &h);
 			map_tail--;
 			map_tail->hash = h.hash;
-			map_tail->offs = (u16) ((char *) de - base);
+			map_tail->offs = ((char *) de - base)>>2;
 			map_tail->size = le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
 			count++;
 			cond_resched();
@@ -1147,7 +1147,8 @@ dx_move_dirents(char *from, char *to, struct dx_map_entry *map, int count,
 	unsigned rec_len = 0;
 
 	while (count--) {
-		struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) (from + map->offs);
+		struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) 
+						(from + (map->offs<<2));
 		rec_len = EXT4_DIR_REC_LEN(de->name_len);
 		memcpy (to, de, rec_len);
 		((struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) to)->rec_len =