diff --git a/fs/verity/Kconfig b/fs/verity/Kconfig
index 76d1c5971b82..b20882963ffb 100644
--- a/fs/verity/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/verity/Kconfig
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 config FS_VERITY
 	bool "FS Verity (read-only file-based authenticity protection)"
+	# Filesystems cache the Merkle tree at a 64K aligned offset in the
+	# pagecache.  That approach assumes the page size is at most 64K.
+	depends on PAGE_SHIFT <= 16
 	select CRYPTO_HASH_INFO
 	select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256
 	select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA512