diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index 14ac4806e2913f8c37e76d95dc1d0274f4bbd027..eeb4986ea7db7cbb65b0b48685ae0a0d3f6a1a7e 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -348,7 +348,17 @@ int cachefiles_delete_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 	dir = dget_parent(object->dentry);
 
 	mutex_lock_nested(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
-	ret = cachefiles_bury_object(cache, dir, object->dentry);
+
+	/* we need to check that our parent is _still_ our parent - it may have
+	 * been renamed */
+	if (dir == object->dentry->d_parent) {
+		ret = cachefiles_bury_object(cache, dir, object->dentry);
+	} else {
+		/* it got moved, presumably by cachefilesd culling it, so it's
+		 * no longer in the key path and we can ignore it */
+		mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
+		ret = 0;
+	}
 
 	dput(dir);
 	_leave(" = %d", ret);