diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 9e6d14748b5a53d6380a513cb99439c91ceaa0aa..1cb42d94078479dc9a9e107c79e361e0c385a02b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2164,7 +2164,9 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 	struct buffer_head *bh = NULL;
 	struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
 	struct super_block *sb;
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi;
+#endif
 	struct ext4_filename fname;
 	int	retval;
 	int	dx_fallback=0;
@@ -2176,12 +2178,12 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 		csum_size = sizeof(struct ext4_dir_entry_tail);
 
 	sb = dir->i_sb;
-	sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
 	blocksize = sb->s_blocksize;
 	if (!dentry->d_name.len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
+	sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
 	if (ext4_has_strict_mode(sbi) && IS_CASEFOLDED(dir) &&
 	    sbi->s_encoding && utf8_validate(sbi->s_encoding, &dentry->d_name))
 		return -EINVAL;