diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3508a5a19d3a..9ef0b689042e 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: f7c85868fcacc331dd3454a4f08f006d7942521f
+refs/heads/master: 554a8b9f54cd7ca2b89f5dc227df08be082fae0d
diff --git a/trunk/fs/namei.c b/trunk/fs/namei.c
index 42ccb97cc260..94fd0fa2d647 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/namei.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/namei.c
@@ -2411,7 +2411,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(mknodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, mode,
 		goto out_drop_write;
 	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
 		case 0: case S_IFREG:
-			error = vfs_create(nd.path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,&nd);
+			error = vfs_create(nd.path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,NULL);
 			break;
 		case S_IFCHR: case S_IFBLK:
 			error = vfs_mknod(nd.path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,