diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h
index 5f180cf7abbd6f4e21dc1a662932f06ad56a6407..5e0c0d0aef7dcbcf1c9baae7b108cc47bce1f9cf 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@
 #define OCFS2_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb,mask)			\
 	OCFS2_SB(sb)->s_feature_incompat &= ~(mask)
 
-#define OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_SUPP	OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_BACKUP_SB
+#define OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_SUPP	(OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_BACKUP_SB	\
+					 | OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_JBD2_SB)
 #define OCFS2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SUPP	(OCFS2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_LOCAL_MOUNT \
 					 | OCFS2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SPARSE_ALLOC \
 					 | OCFS2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_INLINE_DATA \
@@ -152,6 +153,11 @@
  */
 #define OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_BACKUP_SB		0x0001
 
+/*
+ * The filesystem will correctly handle journal feature bits.
+ */
+#define OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_JBD2_SB		0x0002
+
 /*
  * Unwritten extents support.
  */
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index 054e2efb0b7e71f196025c777d61f2cc5954e0f9..74d7367ade13e1e36cb74a13327ca65573fabf86 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -2645,9 +2645,9 @@ static int ocfs2_xattr_update_xattr_search(struct inode *inode,
 				return ret;
 			}
 
-			i = xs->here - old_xh->xh_entries;
-			xs->here = &xs->header->xh_entries[i];
 		}
+		i = xs->here - old_xh->xh_entries;
+		xs->here = &xs->header->xh_entries[i];
 	}
 
 	return ret;