diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 35c7dcd12fda..b3f5ca7346c7 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ed70afcd6e795e3de98df56f1cd0f898fbf641a7
+refs/heads/master: 841590ce16c19a3ce38028adfc8b1955482ee00c
diff --git a/trunk/fs/libfs.c b/trunk/fs/libfs.c
index 8f2271a5df53..c18e9a1235b6 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/libfs.c
@@ -328,8 +328,10 @@ int simple_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 
 	if (new_dentry->d_inode) {
 		simple_unlink(new_dir, new_dentry);
-		if (they_are_dirs)
+		if (they_are_dirs) {
+			drop_nlink(new_dentry->d_inode);
 			drop_nlink(old_dir);
+		}
 	} else if (they_are_dirs) {
 		drop_nlink(old_dir);
 		inc_nlink(new_dir);