diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index a3f469962d30..71ef465c8861 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 2c94eb86c66e1eaaa1e7d8a2120f4fad5e7e7736
+refs/heads/master: b05ab1dc3795e6f997fb0d34f38fce5012533c3e
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
index ba91bd0f7916..f27c8164c1fe 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2318,7 +2318,7 @@ static int ext4_link(struct dentry *old_dentry,
 	struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
 	int err, retries = 0;
 
-	if (EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(inode))
+	if (inode->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
 		return -EMLINK;
 
 	/*