diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 6af1cf3c840b..76b296d8357b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 87cfa004321c62aec681713ea48e0b846336d9f4
+refs/heads/master: b99835c1684918b9975851d71455c5c007d1715b
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
index f594f300d4cd..f4967e634ffd 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -491,8 +491,10 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod_locked(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 			brelse(*new_fe_bh);
 			*new_fe_bh = NULL;
 		}
-		if (inode)
+		if (inode) {
+			clear_nlink(inode);
 			iput(inode);
+		}
 	}
 
 	mlog_exit(status);