diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index bf4f4b7e11b38298c67d4eac41fec30e63d70c16..6d94e0696f8c313ee5a439f5ed2f140b356500f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -134,9 +134,15 @@ ro                   	Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext4 will
                      	mount options "ro,noload" can be used to prevent
 		     	writes to the filesystem.
 
+journal_checksum	Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
+			This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
+			kernel to detect corruption in the kernel.  It is a
+			compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels.
+
 journal_async_commit	Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
 			for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
-			mount the device.
+			mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
+			internally.
 
 journal=update		Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current
 			format.
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 984ca0cb38c38be74fb091d19e8d811fcc1d95ca..00d153f2f26134523ead16e60106800eed8eb861 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 #define EXT4_MOUNT_QUOTA		0x80000 /* Some quota option set */
 #define EXT4_MOUNT_USRQUOTA		0x100000 /* "old" user quota */
 #define EXT4_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA		0x200000 /* "old" group quota */
+#define EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_CHECKSUM	0x800000 /* Journal checksums */
 #define EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT	0x1000000 /* Journal Async Commit */
 #define EXT4_MOUNT_I_VERSION            0x2000000 /* i_version support */
 #define EXT4_MOUNT_DELALLOC		0x8000000 /* Delalloc support */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 312211ee05af39618274736a49096cb88ff067de..d4ca92aab51411de0bab1bf8824e9aa8974b8d17 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1300,9 +1300,11 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, struct super_block *sb,
 			*journal_devnum = option;
 			break;
 		case Opt_journal_checksum:
-			break;	/* Kept for backwards compatibility */
+			set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM);
+			break;
 		case Opt_journal_async_commit:
 			set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT);
+			set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM);
 			break;
 		case Opt_noload:
 			set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOLOAD);
@@ -2759,14 +2761,20 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		goto failed_mount4;
 	}
 
-	jbd2_journal_set_features(sbi->s_journal,
-				  JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM, 0, 0);
-	if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT))
-		jbd2_journal_set_features(sbi->s_journal, 0, 0,
+	if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT)) {
+		jbd2_journal_set_features(sbi->s_journal,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM, 0,
 				JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT);
-	else
+	} else if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM)) {
+		jbd2_journal_set_features(sbi->s_journal,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM, 0, 0);
 		jbd2_journal_clear_features(sbi->s_journal, 0, 0,
 				JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT);
+	} else {
+		jbd2_journal_clear_features(sbi->s_journal,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM, 0,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT);
+	}
 
 	/* We have now updated the journal if required, so we can
 	 * validate the data journaling mode. */