diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
index 0b3194b59d1231cb605bdc6406b1e714ad4cda2d..75a769634b2b32337ff7041aa830295a6a2e81a0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
@@ -435,12 +435,12 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
 	percpu_down_write(&sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
 
 	/*
-	 * Worst case we can touch the allocation bitmaps, a bgd
-	 * block, and a block to link in the orphan list.  We do need
-	 * need to worry about credits for modifying the quota inode.
+	 * Worst case we can touch the allocation bitmaps and a block
+	 * group descriptor block.  We do need need to worry about
+	 * credits for modifying the quota inode.
 	 */
 	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MIGRATE,
-		4 + EXT4_MAXQUOTAS_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
+		3 + EXT4_MAXQUOTAS_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
 
 	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 		retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
@@ -461,10 +461,6 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
 	 * Use the correct seed for checksum (i.e. the seed from 'inode').  This
 	 * is so that the metadata blocks will have the correct checksum after
 	 * the migration.
-	 *
-	 * Note however that, if a crash occurs during the migration process,
-	 * the recovery process is broken because the tmp_inode checksums will
-	 * be wrong and the orphans cleanup will fail.
 	 */
 	ei = EXT4_I(inode);
 	EXT4_I(tmp_inode)->i_csum_seed = ei->i_csum_seed;
@@ -476,7 +472,6 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
 	clear_nlink(tmp_inode);
 
 	ext4_ext_tree_init(handle, tmp_inode);
-	ext4_orphan_add(handle, tmp_inode);
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 
 	/*
@@ -501,12 +496,6 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
 
 	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MIGRATE, 1);
 	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
-		/*
-		 * It is impossible to update on-disk structures without
-		 * a handle, so just rollback in-core changes and live other
-		 * work to orphan_list_cleanup()
-		 */
-		ext4_orphan_del(NULL, tmp_inode);
 		retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
 		goto out_tmp_inode;
 	}