commit ede4cebc upstream.

... and equivalent is needed in 3.12; it's broken there as well
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Michael Marineau <michael.marineau@coreos.com>
Tested-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>