diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index d4f68e758033..9a8a426a53c6 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: e45413eb708c1cf21082764457692c8eeac0ca97
+refs/heads/master: 7bb0386f102ece8819182ccf7fffe8bbebc32b19
diff --git a/trunk/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/trunk/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index e77676df6713..a736d44989c4 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -147,13 +147,13 @@ static int debugfs_create_by_name(const char *name, mode_t mode,
 	*dentry = NULL;
 	mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	*dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+	if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
 		if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
 			error = debugfs_mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
 		else 
 			error = debugfs_create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
 	} else
-		error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+		error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
 	mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
 	return error;