diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 1530cf4..e8460f6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3272,7 +3272,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
 		if (err)
 			goto out;
 		zero_ex.ee_block = ex->ee_block;
-		zero_ex.ee_len = ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex);
+		zero_ex.ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ext));
 		ext4_ext_store_pblock(&zero_ex, ext4_ext_pblock(ex));
 
 		err = ext4_ext_get_access(handle, inode, path + depth);