diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 93e0a2404532..17bb4dc28fae 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -501,10 +501,6 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
 	is non-NULL.  Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it,
 	store it as cookie.
 --
-[mandatory]
-	__fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not
-	hold a spinlock	or other resources that do not allow a schedule.
---
 [mandatory]
 	any symlink that might use page_follow_link_light/page_put_link() must
 	have inode_nohighmem(inode) called before anything might start playing with
diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 9d047bd046b0..4115503bb575 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -592,13 +592,16 @@ void __fd_install(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd,
 {
 	struct fdtable *fdt;
 
-	might_sleep();
 	rcu_read_lock_sched();
 
-	while (unlikely(files->resize_in_progress)) {
+	if (unlikely(files->resize_in_progress)) {
 		rcu_read_unlock_sched();
-		wait_event(files->resize_wait, !files->resize_in_progress);
-		rcu_read_lock_sched();
+		spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
+		fdt = files_fdtable(files);
+		BUG_ON(fdt->fd[fd] != NULL);
+		rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], file);
+		spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
+		return;
 	}
 	/* coupled with smp_wmb() in expand_fdtable() */
 	smp_rmb();