diff --git a/fs/jffs2/dir.c b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
index a5e9f22..9def6ad 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
 	}
 
 	dir_i->i_mtime = dir_i->i_ctime = ITIME(je32_to_cpu(rd->mctime));
-	dir_i->i_nlink++;
+	inc_nlink(dir_i);
 
 	jffs2_free_raw_dirent(rd);
 
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@
 	/* If it was a directory we moved, and there was no victim,
 	   increase i_nlink on its new parent */
 	if (S_ISDIR(old_dentry->d_inode->i_mode) && !victim_f)
-		new_dir_i->i_nlink++;
+		inc_nlink(new_dir_i);
 
 	/* Unlink the original */
 	ret = jffs2_do_unlink(c, JFFS2_INODE_INFO(old_dir_i),
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@
 		/* Oh shit. We really ought to make a single node which can do both atomically */
 		struct jffs2_inode_info *f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(old_dentry->d_inode);
 		down(&f->sem);
-		old_dentry->d_inode->i_nlink++;
+		inc_nlink(old_dentry->d_inode);
 		if (f->inocache)
 			f->inocache->nlink++;
 		up(&f->sem);
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
index 72d9909d..7bc1a42 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
@@ -277,13 +277,13 @@
 
 		for (fd=f->dents; fd; fd = fd->next) {
 			if (fd->type == DT_DIR && fd->ino)
-				inode->i_nlink++;
+				inc_nlink(inode);
 		}
 		/* and '..' */
-		inode->i_nlink++;
+		inc_nlink(inode);
 		/* Root dir gets i_nlink 3 for some reason */
 		if (inode->i_ino == 1)
-			inode->i_nlink++;
+			inc_nlink(inode);
 
 		inode->i_op = &jffs2_dir_inode_operations;
 		inode->i_fop = &jffs2_dir_operations;