Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/libfs.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 1bbea5e7bae3..d6205ea61afa 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ struct dentry *simple_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) && IS_CASEFOLDED(dir))
 		return NULL;
 
-	d_add(dentry, NULL);
-	return NULL;
+	return d_splice_alias(NULL, dentry);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_lookup);
 
-- 
2.47.3