diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 07a8b47c2dd9..1be74596b32d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: eed9935745cc44071043ec8c4cde64c820b5c601
+refs/heads/master: 1f018458b30b0d5c535c94e577aa0acbb92e1395
diff --git a/trunk/fs/nfs/dir.c b/trunk/fs/nfs/dir.c
index ce8cb926526b..a46a74654488 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1155,11 +1155,14 @@ static int nfs_dentry_delete(const struct dentry *dentry)
 
 }
 
+/* Ensure that we revalidate inode->i_nlink */
 static void nfs_drop_nlink(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-	if (inode->i_nlink > 0)
-		drop_nlink(inode);
+	/* drop the inode if we're reasonably sure this is the last link */
+	if (inode->i_nlink == 1)
+		clear_nlink(inode);
+	NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity |= NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR;
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 }
 
@@ -1174,8 +1177,8 @@ static void nfs_dentry_iput(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
 		NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity |= NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA;
 
 	if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED) {
-		drop_nlink(inode);
 		nfs_complete_unlink(dentry, inode);
+		nfs_drop_nlink(inode);
 	}
 	iput(inode);
 }
@@ -1646,10 +1649,8 @@ static int nfs_safe_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
 	if (inode != NULL) {
 		NFS_PROTO(inode)->return_delegation(inode);
 		error = NFS_PROTO(dir)->remove(dir, &dentry->d_name);
-		/* The VFS may want to delete this inode */
 		if (error == 0)
 			nfs_drop_nlink(inode);
-		nfs_mark_for_revalidate(inode);
 	} else
 		error = NFS_PROTO(dir)->remove(dir, &dentry->d_name);
 	if (error == -ENOENT)