diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
index 8a0700af9596..b0d015a8cdc3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@ Contents encryption
 -------------------
 
 For file contents, each filesystem block is encrypted independently.
-Currently, only the case where the filesystem block size is equal to
-the system's page size (usually 4096 bytes) is supported.
+Starting from Linux kernel 5.5, encryption of filesystems with block
+size less than system's page size is supported.
 
 Each block's IV is set to the logical block number within the file as
 a little endian number, except that:
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 7796e2ffc294..66693510326f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4429,13 +4429,6 @@ no_journal:
 		}
 	}
 
-	if ((DUMMY_ENCRYPTION_ENABLED(sbi) || ext4_has_feature_encrypt(sb)) &&
-	    (blocksize != PAGE_SIZE)) {
-		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
-			 "Unsupported blocksize for fs encryption");
-		goto failed_mount_wq;
-	}
-
 	if (ext4_has_feature_verity(sb) && blocksize != PAGE_SIZE) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Unsupported blocksize for fs-verity");
 		goto failed_mount_wq;