From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/namei.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~fs-fix-indentation-in-do_path_lookup fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~fs-fix-indentation-in-do_path_lookup +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -1155,11 +1155,9 @@ static int fastcall do_path_lookup(int d current->total_link_count = 0; retval = link_path_walk(name, nd); out: - if (likely(retval == 0)) { - if (unlikely(!audit_dummy_context() && nd && nd->dentry && + if (unlikely(!retval && !audit_dummy_context() && nd->dentry && nd->dentry->d_inode)) audit_inode(name, nd->dentry->d_inode); - } out_fail: return retval; _