diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 1421938e6792..1d418387ffb0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2882,7 +2882,7 @@ static int ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle,
 		if (err)
 			goto fix_extent_len;
 		/* update the extent length and mark as initialized */
-		ex->ee_len = cpu_to_le32(ee_len);
+		ex->ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ee_len);
 		ext4_ext_try_to_merge(inode, path, ex);
 		err = ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + depth);
 		goto out;