diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index 21b1404..ba2149e 100644
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
         return self.file.seek(offset, whence)
 
     def __getattr__(self, name):
-        return getattr(name, self.file)
+        return getattr(self.file, name)
 
 
 class GzipFile(io.BufferedIOBase):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gzip.py b/Lib/test/test_gzip.py
index 7f2e798..8af6d2b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gzip.py
@@ -197,6 +197,12 @@
                 self.assertTrue(hasattr(f, "name"))
                 self.assertEqual(f.name, self.filename)
 
+    def test_paddedfile_getattr(self):
+        self.test_write()
+        with gzip.GzipFile(self.filename, 'rb') as f:
+            self.assertTrue(hasattr(f.fileobj, "name"))
+            self.assertEqual(f.fileobj.name, self.filename)
+
     def test_mtime(self):
         mtime = 123456789
         with gzip.GzipFile(self.filename, 'w', mtime = mtime) as fWrite: