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-rw-r--r--fs/ecryptfs/inode.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index 546c1fe692c0..7aaf1913f9c6 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -350,11 +350,9 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry,
*/
lower_inode = READ_ONCE(lower_dentry->d_inode);
- if (!lower_inode) {
- /* We want to add because we couldn't find in lower */
- d_add(dentry, NULL);
- return NULL;
- }
+ if (!lower_inode) /* We want to add because we couldn't find in lower */
+ return d_splice_alias(NULL, dentry);
+
inode = __ecryptfs_get_inode(lower_inode, dentry->d_sb);
if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error interposing; rc = [%ld]\n",