diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
index 288a41ec60c9..1336d4750c37 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
@@ -1061,7 +1061,20 @@ int mdc_revalidate_lock(struct obd_export *exp, struct lookup_intent *it,
 		fid_build_reg_res_name(fid, &res_id);
 		switch (it->it_op) {
 		case IT_GETATTR:
-			policy.l_inodebits.bits = MDS_INODELOCK_UPDATE;
+			/* File attributes are held under multiple bits:
+			 * nlink is under lookup lock, size and times are
+			 * under UPDATE lock and recently we've also got
+			 * a separate permissions lock for owner/group/acl that
+			 * were protected by lookup lock before.
+			 * Getattr must provide all of that information,
+			 * so we need to ensure we have all of those locks.
+			 * Unfortunately, if the bits are split across multiple
+			 * locks, there's no easy way to match all of them here,
+			 * so an extra RPC would be performed to fetch all
+			 * of those bits at once for now. */
+			policy.l_inodebits.bits = MDS_INODELOCK_UPDATE |
+						  MDS_INODELOCK_LOOKUP |
+						  MDS_INODELOCK_PERM;
 			break;
 		case IT_LAYOUT:
 			policy.l_inodebits.bits = MDS_INODELOCK_LAYOUT;
@@ -1070,6 +1083,7 @@ int mdc_revalidate_lock(struct obd_export *exp, struct lookup_intent *it,
 			policy.l_inodebits.bits = MDS_INODELOCK_LOOKUP;
 			break;
 		}
+
 		mode = ldlm_lock_match(exp->exp_obd->obd_namespace,
 				       LDLM_FL_BLOCK_GRANTED, &res_id,
 				       LDLM_IBITS, &policy,