diff --git a/fs/crypto/crypto.c b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
index 4dc788e3bc96b..3fc84bf2b1e52 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/crypto.c
@@ -313,45 +313,47 @@ int fscrypt_decrypt_page(const struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscrypt_decrypt_page);
 
 /*
- * Validate dentries for encrypted directories to make sure we aren't
- * potentially caching stale data after a key has been added or
- * removed.
+ * Validate dentries in encrypted directories to make sure we aren't potentially
+ * caching stale dentries after a key has been added.
  */
 static int fscrypt_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 {
 	struct dentry *dir;
-	int dir_has_key, cached_with_key;
+	int err;
+	int valid;
+
+	/*
+	 * Plaintext names are always valid, since fscrypt doesn't support
+	 * reverting to ciphertext names without evicting the directory's inode
+	 * -- which implies eviction of the dentries in the directory.
+	 */
+	if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME))
+		return 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * Ciphertext name; valid if the directory's key is still unavailable.
+	 *
+	 * Although fscrypt forbids rename() on ciphertext names, we still must
+	 * use dget_parent() here rather than use ->d_parent directly.  That's
+	 * because a corrupted fs image may contain directory hard links, which
+	 * the VFS handles by moving the directory's dentry tree in the dcache
+	 * each time ->lookup() finds the directory and it already has a dentry
+	 * elsewhere.  Thus ->d_parent can be changing, and we must safely grab
+	 * a reference to some ->d_parent to prevent it from being freed.
+	 */
 
 	if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
 		return -ECHILD;
 
 	dir = dget_parent(dentry);
-	if (!IS_ENCRYPTED(d_inode(dir))) {
-		dput(dir);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
-	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	cached_with_key = dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_WITH_KEY;
-	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	dir_has_key = (d_inode(dir)->i_crypt_info != NULL);
+	err = fscrypt_get_encryption_info(d_inode(dir));
+	valid = (d_inode(dir)->i_crypt_info == NULL);
 	dput(dir);
 
-	/*
-	 * If the dentry was cached without the key, and it is a
-	 * negative dentry, it might be a valid name.  We can't check
-	 * if the key has since been made available due to locking
-	 * reasons, so we fail the validation so ext4_lookup() can do
-	 * this check.
-	 *
-	 * We also fail the validation if the dentry was created with
-	 * the key present, but we no longer have the key, or vice versa.
-	 */
-	if ((!cached_with_key && d_is_negative(dentry)) ||
-			(!cached_with_key && dir_has_key) ||
-			(cached_with_key && !dir_has_key))
-		return 0;
-	return 1;
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	return valid;
 }
 
 const struct dentry_operations fscrypt_d_ops = {
diff --git a/fs/crypto/hooks.c b/fs/crypto/hooks.c
index 56debb1fcf5eb..a9492f75bbe13 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/hooks.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/hooks.c
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ int __fscrypt_prepare_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	if (fscrypt_has_encryption_key(dir)) {
+	if (!fscrypt_has_encryption_key(dir)) {
 		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_WITH_KEY;
+		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME;
 		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	}
 
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 60996e64c5798..9b3b75d3bd211 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
 
 #define DCACHE_MAY_FREE			0x00800000
 #define DCACHE_FALLTHRU			0x01000000 /* Fall through to lower layer */
-#define DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_WITH_KEY	0x02000000 /* dir is encrypted with a valid key */
+#define DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME		0x02000000 /* Encrypted name (dir key was unavailable) */
 #define DCACHE_OP_REAL			0x04000000
 
 #define DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP		0x10000000 /* being looked up (with parent locked shared) */
diff --git a/include/linux/fscrypt.h b/include/linux/fscrypt.h
index e5194fc3983e9..5a0c3fee1ea2b 100644
--- a/include/linux/fscrypt.h
+++ b/include/linux/fscrypt.h
@@ -545,10 +545,8 @@ static inline int fscrypt_prepare_rename(struct inode *old_dir,
  * filenames are presented in encrypted form.  Therefore, we'll try to set up
  * the directory's encryption key, but even without it the lookup can continue.
  *
- * To allow invalidating stale dentries if the directory's encryption key is
- * added later, we also install a custom ->d_revalidate() method and use the
- * DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_WITH_KEY flag to indicate whether a given dentry is a
- * plaintext name (flag set) or a ciphertext name (flag cleared).
+ * This also installs a custom ->d_revalidate() method which will invalidate the
+ * dentry if it was created without the key and the key is later added.
  *
  * Return: 0 on success, -errno if a problem occurred while setting up the
  * encryption key
