diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 29539ceeb745..bd91b2778315 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ nfs_opendir(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 
 	/* Call generic open code in order to cache credentials */
 	res = nfs_open(inode, filp);
+	if (filp->f_path.dentry == filp->f_path.mnt->mnt_root) {
+		/* This is a mountpoint, so d_revalidate will never
+		 * have been called, so we need to refresh the
+		 * inode (for close-open consistency) ourselves.
+		 */
+		__nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode);
+	}
 	return res;
 }