diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 185a05d3257e..508a37ec9271 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ struct flex_groups {
 /* Flags that are appropriate for non-directories/regular files. */
 #define EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK (EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL)
 
+/* The only flags that should be swapped */
+#define EXT4_FL_SHOULD_SWAP (EXT4_HUGE_FILE_FL | EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
+
 /* Mask out flags that are inappropriate for the given type of inode. */
 static inline __u32 ext4_mask_flags(umode_t mode, __u32 flags)
 {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index eff68358fae7..2e76fb55d94a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static void swap_inode_data(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
 	loff_t isize;
 	struct ext4_inode_info *ei1;
 	struct ext4_inode_info *ei2;
+	unsigned long tmp;
 
 	ei1 = EXT4_I(inode1);
 	ei2 = EXT4_I(inode2);
@@ -72,7 +73,10 @@ static void swap_inode_data(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
 	swap(inode1->i_mtime, inode2->i_mtime);
 
 	memswap(ei1->i_data, ei2->i_data, sizeof(ei1->i_data));
-	swap(ei1->i_flags, ei2->i_flags);
+	tmp = ei1->i_flags & EXT4_FL_SHOULD_SWAP;
+	ei1->i_flags = (ei2->i_flags & EXT4_FL_SHOULD_SWAP) |
+		(ei1->i_flags & ~EXT4_FL_SHOULD_SWAP);
+	ei2->i_flags = tmp | (ei2->i_flags & ~EXT4_FL_SHOULD_SWAP);
 	swap(ei1->i_disksize, ei2->i_disksize);
 	ext4_es_remove_extent(inode1, 0, EXT_MAX_BLOCKS);
 	ext4_es_remove_extent(inode2, 0, EXT_MAX_BLOCKS);