diff --git a/fs/jfs/inode.c b/fs/jfs/inode.c
index 070dc4b33544..6f1cb2b5ee28 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/inode.c
@@ -63,11 +63,12 @@ struct inode *jfs_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 			inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &jfs_aops;
 		} else {
 			inode->i_op = &jfs_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
+			inode->i_link = JFS_IP(inode)->i_inline;
 			/*
 			 * The inline data should be null-terminated, but
 			 * don't let on-disk corruption crash the kernel
 			 */
-			JFS_IP(inode)->i_inline[inode->i_size] = '\0';
+			inode->i_link[inode->i_size] = '\0';
 		}
 	} else {
 		inode->i_op = &jfs_file_inode_operations;
diff --git a/fs/jfs/namei.c b/fs/jfs/namei.c
index 66db7bc0ed10..e33be921aa41 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/namei.c
@@ -880,7 +880,6 @@ static int jfs_symlink(struct inode *dip, struct dentry *dentry,
 	int ssize;		/* source pathname size */
 	struct btstack btstack;
 	struct inode *ip = d_inode(dentry);
-	unchar *i_fastsymlink;
 	s64 xlen = 0;
 	int bmask = 0, xsize;
 	s64 xaddr;
@@ -946,8 +945,8 @@ static int jfs_symlink(struct inode *dip, struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (ssize <= IDATASIZE) {
 		ip->i_op = &jfs_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
 
-		i_fastsymlink = JFS_IP(ip)->i_inline;
-		memcpy(i_fastsymlink, name, ssize);
+		ip->i_link = JFS_IP(ip)->i_inline;
+		memcpy(ip->i_link, name, ssize);
 		ip->i_size = ssize - 1;
 
 		/*
diff --git a/fs/jfs/symlink.c b/fs/jfs/symlink.c
index 80f42bcc4ef1..5929e2363cb8 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/symlink.c
@@ -17,21 +17,13 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/namei.h>
 #include "jfs_incore.h"
 #include "jfs_inode.h"
 #include "jfs_xattr.h"
 
-static void *jfs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
-{
-	char *s = JFS_IP(d_inode(dentry))->i_inline;
-	nd_set_link(nd, s);
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 const struct inode_operations jfs_fast_symlink_inode_operations = {
 	.readlink	= generic_readlink,
-	.follow_link	= jfs_follow_link,
+	.follow_link	= simple_follow_link,
 	.setattr	= jfs_setattr,
 	.setxattr	= jfs_setxattr,
 	.getxattr	= jfs_getxattr,