diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
index 4679df5..c5f6812 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
@@ -480,6 +480,23 @@
 	.d_delete = rpc_delete_dentry,
 };
 
+/*
+ * Lookup the data. This is trivial - if the dentry didn't already
+ * exist, we know it is negative.
+ */
+static struct dentry *
+rpc_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	if (dentry->d_name.len > NAME_MAX)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	d_add(dentry, NULL);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+const struct inode_operations rpc_dir_inode_operations = {
+	.lookup		= rpc_lookup,
+};
+
 static struct inode *
 rpc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode)
 {
@@ -492,7 +509,7 @@
 	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
 	case S_IFDIR:
 		inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;
-		inode->i_op = &simple_dir_inode_operations;
+		inode->i_op = &rpc_dir_inode_operations;
 		inc_nlink(inode);
 	default:
 		break;
@@ -666,11 +683,8 @@
 		if (!dentry)
 			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	}
-	if (dentry->d_inode == NULL) {
-		if (!dentry->d_op)
-			d_set_d_op(dentry, &rpc_dentry_operations);
+	if (dentry->d_inode == NULL)
 		return dentry;
-	}
 	dput(dentry);
 	return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 }
@@ -1117,6 +1131,7 @@
 	sb->s_blocksize_bits = PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 	sb->s_magic = RPCAUTH_GSSMAGIC;
 	sb->s_op = &s_ops;
+	sb->s_d_op = &rpc_dentry_operations;
 	sb->s_time_gran = 1;
 
 	inode = rpc_get_inode(sb, S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO);