1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 406bf61ed510..8890eba1db52 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static struct dentry_operations fuse_dentry_operations = {
         .d_revalidate   = fuse_dentry_revalidate,
 };
 
-static int valid_mode(int m)
+int fuse_valid_type(int m)
 {
         return S_ISREG(m) || S_ISDIR(m) || S_ISLNK(m) || S_ISCHR(m) ||
                 S_ISBLK(m) || S_ISFIFO(m) || S_ISSOCK(m);
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ static struct dentry *fuse_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *entry,
         fuse_put_request(fc, req);
         /* Zero nodeid is same as -ENOENT, but with valid timeout */
         if (!err && outarg.nodeid &&
-            (invalid_nodeid(outarg.nodeid) || !valid_mode(outarg.attr.mode)))
+            (invalid_nodeid(outarg.nodeid) ||
+             !fuse_valid_type(outarg.attr.mode)))
                 err = -EIO;
         if (!err && outarg.nodeid) {
                 inode = fuse_iget(dir->i_sb, outarg.nodeid, outarg.generation,