diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
index 406859cc68aa..017aedc8a7a1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
@@ -480,23 +480,6 @@ static const struct dentry_operations rpc_dentry_operations = {
 	.d_delete = rpc_delete_dentry,
 };
 
-/*
- * Lookup the data. This is trivial - if the dentry didn't already
- * exist, we know it is negative.
- */
-static struct dentry *
-rpc_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
-{
-	if (dentry->d_name.len > NAME_MAX)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
-	d_add(dentry, NULL);
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-static const struct inode_operations rpc_dir_inode_operations = {
-	.lookup		= rpc_lookup,
-};
-
 static struct inode *
 rpc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode)
 {
@@ -509,7 +492,7 @@ rpc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode)
 	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
 	case S_IFDIR:
 		inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;
-		inode->i_op = &rpc_dir_inode_operations;
+		inode->i_op = &simple_dir_inode_operations;
 		inc_nlink(inode);
 	default:
 		break;