diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index f09b908..5a23073 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1612,6 +1612,10 @@
  * If a dentry was found and moved, then it is returned.  Otherwise NULL
  * is returned.  This matches the expected return value of ->lookup.
  *
+ * Cluster filesystems may call this function with a negative, hashed dentry.
+ * In that case, we know that the inode will be a regular file, and also this
+ * will only occur during atomic_open. So we need to check for the dentry
+ * being already hashed only in the final case.
  */
 struct dentry *d_splice_alias(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
@@ -1636,8 +1640,11 @@
 			security_d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 			d_rehash(dentry);
 		}
-	} else
-		d_add(dentry, inode);
+	} else {
+		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
+		if (d_unhashed(dentry))
+			d_rehash(dentry);
+	}
 	return new;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_splice_alias);