diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index cc49ae04a6f6..3b9740c1c16d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1467,6 +1467,8 @@ int ext4_search_dir(struct buffer_head *bh, char *search_buf, int buf_size,
 		/* this code is executed quadratically often */
 		/* do minimal checking `by hand' */
 		if (de->name + de->name_len <= dlimit &&
+		    (!ext4_hash_in_dirent(dir) ||
+		     (char *)de + ext4_dir_rec_len(de->name_len, dir) <= dlimit) &&
 		    ext4_match(dir, fname, de)) {
 			/* found a match - just to be sure, do
 			 * a full check */