diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 09606fd83d577635872a984968c691ac2b602b6e..0b3138de2a3b79fd8d1bf1843e405506f343f605 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -721,12 +721,6 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
 	if (!path->dentry->d_op || !path->dentry->d_op->d_automount)
 		return -EREMOTE;
 
-	/* We don't want to mount if someone supplied AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
-	 * and this is the terminal part of the path.
-	 */
-	if ((flags & LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) && !(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT))
-		return -EISDIR; /* we actually want to stop here */
-
 	/* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat -
 	 * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to
 	 * the name.
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index ba5316ffac617679a4beae086c1048886d4ae209..78a3aa83c7eac3f153cc5e370cabd754babb9aab 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -81,8 +81,6 @@ int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat,
 
 	if (!(flag & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW))
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
-	if (flag & AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT)
-		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT;
 	if (flag & AT_EMPTY_PATH)
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index e13dac7caab249a0d8279591810d66748c11b7ae..409328d1cbbb31d5173fc197154ca48c00b0492d 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND};
 #define LOOKUP_PARENT		0x0010
 #define LOOKUP_REVAL		0x0020
 #define LOOKUP_RCU		0x0040
-#define LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT	0x0080
+
 /*
  * Intent data
  */