__le64                  btree_allocated_bitmap;
 };
 
+/*
+ * This limit comes from the bucket_gens array - it's a single allocation, and
+ * kernel allocation are limited to INT_MAX
+ */
+#define BCH_MEMBER_NBUCKETS_MAX        (INT_MAX - 64)
+
 #define BCH_MEMBER_V1_BYTES    56
 
 LE64_BITMASK(BCH_MEMBER_STATE,         struct bch_member, flags,  0,  4)
 
        x(EINVAL,                       block_size_too_small)                   \
        x(EINVAL,                       bucket_size_too_small)                  \
        x(EINVAL,                       device_size_too_small)                  \
+       x(EINVAL,                       device_size_too_big)                    \
        x(EINVAL,                       device_not_a_member_of_filesystem)      \
        x(EINVAL,                       device_has_been_removed)                \
        x(EINVAL,                       device_splitbrain)                      \
 
                           struct bch_sb *sb,
                           int i)
 {
-       if (le64_to_cpu(m.nbuckets) > LONG_MAX) {
-               prt_printf(err, "device %u: too many buckets (got %llu, max %lu)",
-                          i, le64_to_cpu(m.nbuckets), LONG_MAX);
+       if (le64_to_cpu(m.nbuckets) > BCH_MEMBER_NBUCKETS_MAX) {
+               prt_printf(err, "device %u: too many buckets (got %llu, max %u)",
+                          i, le64_to_cpu(m.nbuckets), BCH_MEMBER_NBUCKETS_MAX);
                return -BCH_ERR_invalid_sb_members;
        }
 
 
                goto err;
        }
 
+       if (nbuckets > BCH_MEMBER_NBUCKETS_MAX) {
+               bch_err(ca, "New device size too big (%llu greater than max %u)",
+                       nbuckets, BCH_MEMBER_NBUCKETS_MAX);
+               ret = -BCH_ERR_device_size_too_big;
+               goto err;
+       }
+
        if (bch2_dev_is_online(ca) &&
            get_capacity(ca->disk_sb.bdev->bd_disk) <
            ca->mi.bucket_size * nbuckets) {