1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 0defe0bfe019..be6668bbc1b3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3418,7 +3418,7 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
                 inode->i_uid |= le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_uid_high) << 16;
                 inode->i_gid |= le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_gid_high) << 16;
         }
-        inode->i_nlink = le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_links_count);
+        set_nlink(inode, le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_links_count));
 
         ext4_clear_state_flags(ei);     /* Only relevant on 32-bit archs */
         ei->i_dir_start_lookup = 0;