diff --git a/fs/ceph/super.c b/fs/ceph/super.c
index 885cb5d4e771..0cdf84cd1791 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/super.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/super.c
@@ -961,7 +961,8 @@ static int __init init_caches(void)
 	if (!ceph_mds_request_cachep)
 		goto bad_mds_req;
 
-	ceph_wb_pagevec_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(10, CEPH_MAX_WRITE_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	ceph_wb_pagevec_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(10,
+	    (CEPH_MAX_WRITE_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT) * sizeof(struct page *));
 	if (!ceph_wb_pagevec_pool)
 		goto bad_pagevec_pool;