diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 7c7123f265c25ae9a586877dc30d7b80ede5b62c..1d7dac2df6e8c190e4b274b5369f9075acbcb5a6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -789,17 +789,16 @@ struct move_extent {
  * affected filesystem before 2242.
  */
 
-static inline __le32 ext4_encode_extra_time(struct timespec *time)
+static inline __le32 ext4_encode_extra_time(struct timespec64 *time)
 {
-	u32 extra = sizeof(time->tv_sec) > 4 ?
-		((time->tv_sec - (s32)time->tv_sec) >> 32) & EXT4_EPOCH_MASK : 0;
+	u32 extra =((time->tv_sec - (s32)time->tv_sec) >> 32) & EXT4_EPOCH_MASK;
 	return cpu_to_le32(extra | (time->tv_nsec << EXT4_EPOCH_BITS));
 }
 
-static inline void ext4_decode_extra_time(struct timespec *time, __le32 extra)
+static inline void ext4_decode_extra_time(struct timespec64 *time,
+					  __le32 extra)
 {
-	if (unlikely(sizeof(time->tv_sec) > 4 &&
-			(extra & cpu_to_le32(EXT4_EPOCH_MASK)))) {
+	if (unlikely(extra & cpu_to_le32(EXT4_EPOCH_MASK))) {
 
 #if 1
 		/* Handle legacy encoding of pre-1970 dates with epoch
@@ -821,9 +820,8 @@ static inline void ext4_decode_extra_time(struct timespec *time, __le32 extra)
 do {										\
 	(raw_inode)->xtime = cpu_to_le32((inode)->xtime.tv_sec);		\
 	if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, EXT4_I(inode), xtime ## _extra))     {\
-		struct timespec ts = timespec64_to_timespec((inode)->xtime);	\
 		(raw_inode)->xtime ## _extra =					\
-				ext4_encode_extra_time(&ts);			\
+				ext4_encode_extra_time(&(inode)->xtime);	\
 		}								\
 } while (0)
 
@@ -840,10 +838,8 @@ do {									       \
 do {										\
 	(inode)->xtime.tv_sec = (signed)le32_to_cpu((raw_inode)->xtime);	\
 	if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, EXT4_I(inode), xtime ## _extra)) {	\
-		struct timespec ts = timespec64_to_timespec((inode)->xtime);	\
-		ext4_decode_extra_time(&ts,					\
+		ext4_decode_extra_time(&(inode)->xtime,				\
 				       raw_inode->xtime ## _extra);		\
-		(inode)->xtime = timespec_to_timespec64(ts);			\
 		}								\
 	else									\
 		(inode)->xtime.tv_nsec = 0;					\
@@ -993,9 +989,9 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 
 	/*
 	 * File creation time. Its function is same as that of
-	 * struct timespec i_{a,c,m}time in the generic inode.
+	 * struct timespec64 i_{a,c,m}time in the generic inode.
 	 */
-	struct timespec i_crtime;
+	struct timespec64 i_crtime;
 
 	/* mballoc */
 	struct list_head i_prealloc_list;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index f336cbc6e932ee03113ebfa957e9b74ccc42352a..dffd21de26943acc2c287a1c882396f21d14f2f5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ struct inode *__ext4_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
 	/* This is the optimal IO size (for stat), not the fs block size */
 	inode->i_blocks = 0;
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
-	ei->i_crtime = timespec64_to_timespec(inode->i_mtime);
+	ei->i_crtime = inode->i_mtime;
 
 	memset(ei->i_data, 0, sizeof(ei->i_data));
 	ei->i_dir_start_lookup = 0;