diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 1bf2543..33af321 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -755,9 +755,18 @@
 	int set_context =	(oldsbsec->flags & CONTEXT_MNT);
 	int set_rootcontext =	(oldsbsec->flags & ROOTCONTEXT_MNT);
 
-	/* we can't error, we can't save the info, this shouldn't get called
-	 * this early in the boot process. */
-	BUG_ON(!ss_initialized);
+	/*
+	 * if the parent was able to be mounted it clearly had no special lsm
+	 * mount options.  thus we can safely put this sb on the list and deal
+	 * with it later
+	 */
+	if (!ss_initialized) {
+		spin_lock(&sb_security_lock);
+		if (list_empty(&newsbsec->list))
+			list_add(&newsbsec->list, &superblock_security_head);
+		spin_unlock(&sb_security_lock);
+		return;
+	}
 
 	/* how can we clone if the old one wasn't set up?? */
 	BUG_ON(!oldsbsec->initialized);