diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 8808c503069b..325b469ffd9c 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: fe6e9c1f25ac01f848bd084ee0ee62a5a0966ff3
+refs/heads/master: 12fd0d3088d27867be68655bcab2b074f2835f60
diff --git a/trunk/fs/utimes.c b/trunk/fs/utimes.c
index af059d5cb485..14d3edbb3d7c 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/utimes.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/utimes.c
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, int flags
 	if (error)
 		goto dput_and_out;
 
+	if (times && times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW &&
+		     times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW)
+		times = NULL;
+
 	/* Don't worry, the checks are done in inode_change_ok() */
 	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME;
 	if (times) {