diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index b1fa1248b5f1..3663d5aef32d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: add216608a63713b8a2c4545698d5ae02e27ac3b
+refs/heads/master: 585b7747d63e3a5f65628d21c1745edd926d7897
diff --git a/trunk/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/trunk/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
index 7e5a2f5ebeb0..9c69bcacad22 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ int reiserfs_new_inode(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
 		err = -EDQUOT;
 		goto out_end_trans;
 	}
-	if (!dir || !dir->i_nlink) {
+	if (!dir->i_nlink) {
 		err = -EPERM;
 		goto out_bad_inode;
 	}