diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 4bb5a80..0b77082 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1725,8 +1725,10 @@
 
 	if (new_dentry->d_inode) {
 		(void) shmem_unlink(new_dir, new_dentry);
-		if (they_are_dirs)
+		if (they_are_dirs) {
+			drop_nlink(new_dentry->d_inode);
 			drop_nlink(old_dir);
+		}
 	} else if (they_are_dirs) {
 		drop_nlink(old_dir);
 		inc_nlink(new_dir);