diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 185f7e61f4cf..eb104e8476f0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5886,5 +5886,6 @@ static void __exit ext4_exit_fs(void)
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Fourth Extended Filesystem");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
 module_init(ext4_init_fs)
 module_exit(ext4_exit_fs)