diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index e17a6396bde6..593f7f80a12e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3241,9 +3241,11 @@ static int count_overhead(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t grp,
 	ext4_fsblk_t		first_block, last_block, b;
 	ext4_group_t		i, ngroups = ext4_get_groups_count(sb);
 	int			s, j, count = 0;
+	int			has_super = ext4_bg_has_super(sb, grp);
 
 	if (!ext4_has_feature_bigalloc(sb))
-		return (ext4_bg_has_super(sb, grp) + ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, grp) +
+		return (has_super + ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, grp) +
+			(has_super ? le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks) : 0) +
 			sbi->s_itb_per_group + 2);
 
 	first_block = le32_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_first_data_block) +