diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index efe078fe5d4a9..0db0e0138bf80 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 	inode->i_mode = mode;
 	inode->i_fop = fops ? fops : &tracefs_file_operations;
 	inode->i_private = data;
+	inode->i_uid = d_inode(dentry->d_parent)->i_uid;
+	inode->i_gid = d_inode(dentry->d_parent)->i_gid;
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 	fsnotify_create(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry);
 	return end_creating(dentry);
@@ -431,6 +433,8 @@ static struct dentry *__create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
 	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUSR| S_IRGRP | S_IXUSR | S_IXGRP;
 	inode->i_op = ops;
 	inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;
+	inode->i_uid = d_inode(dentry->d_parent)->i_uid;
+	inode->i_gid = d_inode(dentry->d_parent)->i_gid;
 
 	/* directory inodes start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry) */
 	inc_nlink(inode);