diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 198862b086ff..3805f9b06c9d 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -1636,7 +1636,7 @@ static const char *fuse_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
 		goto out_err;
 
 	if (fc->cache_symlinks)
-		return page_get_link(dentry, inode, callback);
+		return page_get_link_raw(dentry, inode, callback);
 
 	err = -ECHILD;
 	if (!dentry)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3ab9440c5b93..ecb7b95c2ca3 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -5356,10 +5356,9 @@ const char *vfs_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct delayed_call *done)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_get_link);
 
 /* get the link contents into pagecache */
-const char *page_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
-			  struct delayed_call *callback)
+static char *__page_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
+			     struct delayed_call *callback)
 {
-	char *kaddr;
 	struct page *page;
 	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 
@@ -5378,8 +5377,23 @@ const char *page_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
 	}
 	set_delayed_call(callback, page_put_link, page);
 	BUG_ON(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & __GFP_HIGHMEM);
-	kaddr = page_address(page);
-	nd_terminate_link(kaddr, inode->i_size, PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+	return page_address(page);
+}
+
+const char *page_get_link_raw(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
+			      struct delayed_call *callback)
+{
+	return __page_get_link(dentry, inode, callback);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_get_link_raw);
+
+const char *page_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
+					struct delayed_call *callback)
+{
+	char *kaddr = __page_get_link(dentry, inode, callback);
+
+	if (!IS_ERR(kaddr))
+		nd_terminate_link(kaddr, inode->i_size, PAGE_SIZE - 1);
 	return kaddr;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 2c3b2f8a621f..9346adf28f7b 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3452,6 +3452,8 @@ extern const struct file_operations generic_ro_fops;
 
 extern int readlink_copy(char __user *, int, const char *, int);
 extern int page_readlink(struct dentry *, char __user *, int);
+extern const char *page_get_link_raw(struct dentry *, struct inode *,
+				     struct delayed_call *);
 extern const char *page_get_link(struct dentry *, struct inode *,
 				 struct delayed_call *);
 extern void page_put_link(void *);