diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/namei.c b/fs/reiserfs/namei.c
index a8614bd..1463788 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/namei.c
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@
 ** outside of a transaction, so we had to pull some bits of
 ** reiserfs_new_inode out into this func.
 */
-static int new_inode_init(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, int mode)
+static int new_inode_init(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, umode_t mode)
 {
 	/* Make inode invalid - just in case we are going to drop it before
 	 * the initialization happens */