diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index 8c01c5fcdf75..07cbd447861e 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ static struct dentry *cachefiles_check_active(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 	//       dir->d_name.len, dir->d_name.len, dir->d_name.name, filename);
 
 	/* look up the victim */
-	mutex_lock_nested(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex, 1);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
 
 	start = jiffies;
 	victim = lookup_one_len(filename, dir, strlen(filename));