diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 48e05907786e..d5f9e9240f19 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 0ecaef0644973e9006fdbc6974301047aaff9bc6
+refs/heads/master: fef0ebdb229bedce888b63923e2a1ba4e6c6a84c
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
index f8be1c288a1c..f9ed946a448e 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2368,7 +2368,6 @@ static int ext4_init_new_dir(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
 	}
 
 	inode->i_size = EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = blocksize;
-	dir_block = ext4_bread(handle, inode, 0, 1, &err);
 	if (!(dir_block = ext4_bread(handle, inode, 0, 1, &err))) {
 		if (!err) {
 			err = -EIO;