diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
index 2922b90ceac1a799daa881dfbc3ed991ed2664c2..9b0d4b78b4fbf83f8591b8910b794e4219466cda 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -1475,6 +1475,11 @@ void reiserfs_read_locked_inode(struct inode *inode,
 
 	reiserfs_check_path(&path_to_sd);	/* init inode should be relsing */
 
+	/*
+	 * Stat data v1 doesn't support ACLs.
+	 */
+	if (get_inode_sd_version(inode) == STAT_DATA_V1)
+		cache_no_acl(inode);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 6938d8c68d6e5114d427cb350ae7e8765da928dd..7ba083eb62bdb6dcc430a914156126d79c1571e8 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -872,15 +872,6 @@ int reiserfs_check_acl(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	struct posix_acl *acl;
 	int error = -EAGAIN; /* do regular unix permission checks by default */
 
-	/*
-	 * Stat data v1 doesn't support ACLs.
-	 */
-	if (get_inode_sd_version(inode) == STAT_DATA_V1)
-		return -EAGAIN;
-
-	if (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK)
-		return -ECHILD;
-
 	acl = reiserfs_get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
 
 	if (acl) {