diff --git a/fs/ubifs/dir.c b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
index 27060fc..5c27c66 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -889,6 +889,7 @@
 
 	memcpy(ui->data, symname, len);
 	((char *)ui->data)[len] = '\0';
+	inode->i_link = ui->data;
 	/*
 	 * The terminating zero byte is not written to the flash media and it
 	 * is put just to make later in-memory string processing simpler. Thus,
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index 35efc10..a3dfe2a 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 
 #include "ubifs.h"
 #include <linux/mount.h>
-#include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
 static int read_block(struct inode *inode, void *addr, unsigned int block,
@@ -1300,14 +1299,6 @@
 	ClearPageChecked(page);
 }
 
-static void *ubifs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
-{
-	struct ubifs_inode *ui = ubifs_inode(d_inode(dentry));
-
-	nd_set_link(nd, ui->data);
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 int ubifs_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
@@ -1570,7 +1561,7 @@
 
 const struct inode_operations ubifs_symlink_inode_operations = {
 	.readlink    = generic_readlink,
-	.follow_link = ubifs_follow_link,
+	.follow_link = simple_follow_link,
 	.setattr     = ubifs_setattr,
 	.getattr     = ubifs_getattr,
 	.setxattr    = ubifs_setxattr,
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 75e6f04..20f5dbd 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@
 		}
 		memcpy(ui->data, ino->data, ui->data_len);
 		((char *)ui->data)[ui->data_len] = '\0';
+		inode->i_link = ui->data;
 		break;
 	case S_IFBLK:
 	case S_IFCHR: