1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 32fd9655485b..c7e43536c49a 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2003,18 +2003,22 @@ struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir)
         if (IS_ERR(dentry))
                 goto fail;
 
+        if (dentry->d_inode)
+                goto eexist;
         /*
          * Special case - lookup gave negative, but... we had foo/bar/
          * From the vfs_mknod() POV we just have a negative dentry -
          * all is fine. Let's be bastards - you had / on the end, you've
          * been asking for (non-existent) directory. -ENOENT for you.
          */
-        if (!is_dir && nd->last.name[nd->last.len] && !dentry->d_inode)
-                goto enoent;
+        if (unlikely(!is_dir && nd->last.name[nd->last.len])) {
+                dput(dentry);
+                dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+        }
         return dentry;
-enoent:
+eexist:
         dput(dentry);
-        dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+        dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 fail:
         return dentry;
 }