diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 5e6a8422658b832921196ca4908e7cc6148eb84a..a8e10722f8dc2d8e3c81bf80e784db59acc3af66 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1939,6 +1939,13 @@ shmem_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t dev)
 
 	inode = shmem_get_inode(dir->i_sb, dir, mode, dev, VM_NORESERVE);
 	if (inode) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
+		error = generic_acl_init(inode, dir);
+		if (error) {
+			iput(inode);
+			return error;
+		}
+#endif
 		error = security_inode_init_security(inode, dir,
 						     &dentry->d_name,
 						     shmem_initxattrs, NULL);
@@ -1948,15 +1955,8 @@ shmem_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t dev)
 				return error;
 			}
 		}
-#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
-		error = generic_acl_init(inode, dir);
-		if (error) {
-			iput(inode);
-			return error;
-		}
-#else
+
 		error = 0;
-#endif
 		dir->i_size += BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
 		dir->i_ctime = dir->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
 		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);