diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index ce5a7e6..761e31b 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1184,6 +1184,39 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(have_submounts);
 
 /*
+ * Called by mount code to set a mountpoint and check if the mountpoint is
+ * reachable (e.g. NFS can unhash a directory dentry and then the complete
+ * subtree can become unreachable).
+ *
+ * Only one of check_submounts_and_drop() and d_set_mounted() must succeed.  For
+ * this reason take rename_lock and d_lock on dentry and ancestors.
+ */
+int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct dentry *p;
+	int ret = -ENOENT;
+	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
+	for (p = dentry->d_parent; !IS_ROOT(p); p = p->d_parent) {
+		/* Need exclusion wrt. check_submounts_and_drop() */
+		spin_lock(&p->d_lock);
+		if (unlikely(d_unhashed(p))) {
+			spin_unlock(&p->d_lock);
+			goto out;
+		}
+		spin_unlock(&p->d_lock);
+	}
+	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+	if (!d_unlinked(dentry)) {
+		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_MOUNTED;
+		ret = 0;
+	}
+ 	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+out:
+	write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
  * Search the dentry child list of the specified parent,
  * and move any unused dentries to the end of the unused
  * list for prune_dcache(). We descend to the next level