diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 0642a1691d151c37a9ac0a17780ecce650a219ed..4d03008f015b9ae6d2565cdbc179d034687c3d08 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ asmlinkage off_t sys_lseek(unsigned int fd, off_t offset, unsigned int origin)
 		goto bad;
 
 	retval = -EINVAL;
-	if (origin <= 2) {
+	if (origin <= SEEK_MAX) {
 		loff_t res = vfs_llseek(file, offset, origin);
 		retval = res;
 		if (res != (loff_t)retval)
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_llseek(unsigned int fd, unsigned long offset_high,
 		goto bad;
 
 	retval = -EINVAL;
-	if (origin > 2)
+	if (origin > SEEK_MAX)
 		goto out_putf;
 
 	offset = vfs_llseek(file, ((loff_t) offset_high << 32) | offset_low,
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 020a8426e10a248b8876dc71ca6aa448a66c9e76..986b5d5d369fe59da11f005578f698767110013f 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #define SEEK_SET	0	/* seek relative to beginning of file */
 #define SEEK_CUR	1	/* seek relative to current file position */
 #define SEEK_END	2	/* seek relative to end of file */
+#define SEEK_MAX	SEEK_END
 
 /* And dynamically-tunable limits and defaults: */
 struct files_stat_struct {