diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index d1a49f5b6e6d..d2bbf1445a9e 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int fanotify_encode_fh_len(struct inode *inode)
 	if (!inode)
 		return 0;
 
-	exportfs_encode_inode_fh(inode, NULL, &dwords, NULL, 0);
+	exportfs_encode_fid(inode, NULL, &dwords);
 	fh_len = dwords << 2;
 
 	/*
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static int fanotify_encode_fh(struct fanotify_fh *fh, struct inode *inode,
 	}
 
 	dwords = fh_len >> 2;
-	type = exportfs_encode_inode_fh(inode, buf, &dwords, NULL, 0);
+	type = exportfs_encode_fid(inode, buf, &dwords);
 	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (!type || type == FILEID_INVALID || fh_len != dwords << 2)
 		goto out_err;
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 22fb1cf7e1fc..95d7d8790bc3 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -1591,11 +1591,10 @@ static int fanotify_test_fid(struct dentry *dentry)
 	 * We need to make sure that the file system supports at least
 	 * encoding a file handle so user can use name_to_handle_at() to
 	 * compare fid returned with event to the file handle of watched
-	 * objects. However, name_to_handle_at() requires that the
-	 * filesystem also supports decoding file handles.
+	 * objects. However, even the relaxed AT_HANDLE_FID flag requires
+	 * at least empty export_operations for ecoding unique file ids.
 	 */
-	if (!dentry->d_sb->s_export_op ||
-	    !dentry->d_sb->s_export_op->fh_to_dentry)
+	if (!dentry->d_sb->s_export_op)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	return 0;