diff --git a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
index ec99c8ec83ae1ebe94c46615754b24a8b16786f1..d1d4f27464baf879825eb72ac4ad4812acfaa0fd 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
@@ -1008,8 +1008,8 @@ int jffs2_flash_read(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, loff_t ofs, size_t len, size_t *re
 
 #define NR_OOB_SCAN_PAGES 4
 
-/* For historical reasons we use only 12 bytes for OOB clean marker */
-#define OOB_CM_SIZE 12
+/* For historical reasons we use only 8 bytes for OOB clean marker */
+#define OOB_CM_SIZE 8
 
 static const struct jffs2_unknown_node oob_cleanmarker =
 {