diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
index 2899fe2..09f01f4 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 	if (!dentry->d_inode)
-		dentry->d_op = &rpc_dentry_operations;
+		d_set_d_op(dentry, &rpc_dentry_operations);
 out_err:
 	return dentry;
 }