diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c
index 3cff67cbb9c08724e03d128982173c6700dfa13b..3c03460f48bd9ada890d6f014a7b1120927e4b3a 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/caps.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ void ceph_check_caps(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, int flags,
 	 */
 	if ((!is_delayed || mdsc->stopping) &&
 	    ci->i_wrbuffer_ref == 0 &&               /* no dirty pages... */
-	    ci->i_rdcache_gen &&                     /* may have cached pages */
+	    inode->i_data.nrpages &&                 /* have cached pages */
 	    (file_wanted == 0 ||                     /* no open files */
 	     (revoking & (CEPH_CAP_FILE_CACHE|
 			  CEPH_CAP_FILE_LAZYIO))) && /*  or revoking cache */