diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index dfa3d94..555f0ff 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@
 {
 	struct bin_attribute *bin_attr;
 
+	inode->i_private = sysfs_get(sd);
 	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysfs_aops;
 	inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &sysfs_backing_dev_info;
 	inode->i_op = &sysfs_inode_operations;
@@ -214,6 +215,22 @@
 	return inode;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs.
+ * To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely we take a
+ * reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.  A
+ * super_operations.delete_inode() implementation is needed to drop that
+ * reference upon inode destruction.
+ */
+void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct sysfs_dirent *sd  = inode->i_private;
+
+	truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
+	clear_inode(inode);
+	sysfs_put(sd);
+}
+
 int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name)
 {
 	struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;