diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 406bf61ed510ffbe66def51015943de76d1c3094..8890eba1db524dbd020a5f32554c645f3efab809 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static struct dentry_operations fuse_dentry_operations = {
 	.d_revalidate	= fuse_dentry_revalidate,
 };
 
-static int valid_mode(int m)
+int fuse_valid_type(int m)
 {
 	return S_ISREG(m) || S_ISDIR(m) || S_ISLNK(m) || S_ISCHR(m) ||
 		S_ISBLK(m) || S_ISFIFO(m) || S_ISSOCK(m);
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ static struct dentry *fuse_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *entry,
 	fuse_put_request(fc, req);
 	/* Zero nodeid is same as -ENOENT, but with valid timeout */
 	if (!err && outarg.nodeid &&
-	    (invalid_nodeid(outarg.nodeid) || !valid_mode(outarg.attr.mode)))
+	    (invalid_nodeid(outarg.nodeid) ||
+	     !fuse_valid_type(outarg.attr.mode)))
 		err = -EIO;
 	if (!err && outarg.nodeid) {
 		inode = fuse_iget(dir->i_sb, outarg.nodeid, outarg.generation,
diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index b98b20de740562bd32dc81fcf8af415779496f97..68ae87cbafab556a8b3843681274f7ac911ceae8 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -552,3 +552,8 @@ int fuse_ctl_add_conn(struct fuse_conn *fc);
  * Remove connection from control filesystem
  */
 void fuse_ctl_remove_conn(struct fuse_conn *fc);
+
+/**
+ * Is file type valid?
+ */
+int fuse_valid_type(int m);
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index 5ab8e50e78085823677d6c86075593b2aae92ea3..608db81219a014595f1387e31bffcb28f1729a45 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -330,6 +330,8 @@ static int parse_fuse_opt(char *opt, struct fuse_mount_data *d, int is_bdev)
 		case OPT_ROOTMODE:
 			if (match_octal(&args[0], &value))
 				return 0;
+			if (!fuse_valid_type(value))
+				return 0;
 			d->rootmode = value;
 			d->rootmode_present = 1;
 			break;