diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 2826db35dc25..b52bc685465f 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -727,25 +727,22 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
 	if ((flags & LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) && !(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT))
 		return -EISDIR; /* we actually want to stop here */
 
-	/*
-	 * We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat and they've
-	 * set AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW - unless they're stat'ing a directory and
-	 * appended a '/' to the name.
+	/* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat -
+	 * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to
+	 * the name.
+	 *
+	 * We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or
+	 * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to
+	 * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the
+	 * mounted directory.  Also, autofs may mark negative dentries
+	 * as being automount points.  These will need the attentions
+	 * of the daemon to instantiate them before they can be used.
 	 */
-	if (!(flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) {
-		/* We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or
-		 * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to
-		 * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the mounted
-		 * directory.
-		 * Also, autofs may mark negative dentries as being automount
-		 * points.  These will need the attentions of the daemon to
-		 * instantiate them before they can be used.
-		 */
-		if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |
-			     LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) &&
-		    path->dentry->d_inode)
-			return -EISDIR;
-	}
+	if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |
+		     LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) &&
+	    path->dentry->d_inode)
+		return -EISDIR;
+
 	current->total_link_count++;
 	if (current->total_link_count >= 40)
 		return -ELOOP;