diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
index 237f5ffb2ee8ca067f6dc81ebc38a6de1f7b36ce..4fec427b83efc9dbf42ae9cda3aa64c5c71cdbec 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -906,6 +906,13 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr(
 	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
 		return XFS_ERROR(EIO);
 
+	/*
+	 * Disallow 32bit project ids because on-disk structure
+	 * is 16bit only.
+	 */
+	if ((mask & FSX_PROJID) && (fa->fsx_projid > (__uint16_t)-1))
+		return XFS_ERROR(EINVAL);
+
 	/*
 	 * If disk quotas is on, we make sure that the dquots do exist on disk,
 	 * before we start any other transactions. Trying to do this later