diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index 596ec71da00e..79670869d436 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1516,13 +1516,26 @@ xfs_vm_write_failed(
 	loff_t			pos,
 	unsigned		len)
 {
-	loff_t			block_offset = pos & PAGE_MASK;
+	loff_t			block_offset;
 	loff_t			block_start;
 	loff_t			block_end;
 	loff_t			from = pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 	loff_t			to = from + len;
 	struct buffer_head	*bh, *head;
 
+	/*
+	 * The request pos offset might be 32 or 64 bit, this is all fine
+	 * on 64-bit platform.  However, for 64-bit pos request on 32-bit
+	 * platform, the high 32-bit will be masked off if we evaluate the
+	 * block_offset via (pos & PAGE_MASK) because the PAGE_MASK is
+	 * 0xfffff000 as an unsigned long, hence the result is incorrect
+	 * which could cause the following ASSERT failed in most cases.
+	 * In order to avoid this, we can evaluate the block_offset of the
+	 * start of the page by using shifts rather than masks the mismatch
+	 * problem.
+	 */
+	block_offset = (pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+
 	ASSERT(block_offset + from == pos);
 
 	head = page_buffers(page);