diff --git a/fs/orangefs/inode.c b/fs/orangefs/inode.c
index 85640e955cde..0f586bded7f4 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/orangefs/inode.c
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ int orangefs_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 }
 
 /* ORANGEDS2 implementation of VFS inode operations for files */
-struct inode_operations orangefs_file_inode_operations = {
+const struct inode_operations orangefs_file_inode_operations = {
 	.get_acl = orangefs_get_acl,
 	.set_acl = orangefs_set_acl,
 	.setattr = orangefs_setattr,
diff --git a/fs/orangefs/namei.c b/fs/orangefs/namei.c
index 930894ae7e1d..7e8dfa97c44a 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/orangefs/namei.c
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static int orangefs_rename(struct inode *old_dir,
 }
 
 /* ORANGEFS implementation of VFS inode operations for directories */
-struct inode_operations orangefs_dir_inode_operations = {
+const struct inode_operations orangefs_dir_inode_operations = {
 	.lookup = orangefs_lookup,
 	.get_acl = orangefs_get_acl,
 	.set_acl = orangefs_set_acl,
diff --git a/fs/orangefs/orangefs-kernel.h b/fs/orangefs/orangefs-kernel.h
index 2281882f718e..db78ddde0236 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/orangefs-kernel.h
+++ b/fs/orangefs/orangefs-kernel.h
@@ -570,10 +570,10 @@ extern int hash_table_size;
 
 extern const struct address_space_operations orangefs_address_operations;
 extern struct backing_dev_info orangefs_backing_dev_info;
-extern struct inode_operations orangefs_file_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations orangefs_file_inode_operations;
 extern const struct file_operations orangefs_file_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations orangefs_symlink_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations orangefs_dir_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations orangefs_symlink_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations orangefs_dir_inode_operations;
 extern const struct file_operations orangefs_dir_operations;
 extern const struct dentry_operations orangefs_dentry_operations;
 extern const struct file_operations orangefs_devreq_file_operations;
diff --git a/fs/orangefs/symlink.c b/fs/orangefs/symlink.c
index 6418dd638680..8fecf823f5ba 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/orangefs/symlink.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include "orangefs-kernel.h"
 #include "orangefs-bufmap.h"
 
-struct inode_operations orangefs_symlink_inode_operations = {
+const struct inode_operations orangefs_symlink_inode_operations = {
 	.readlink = generic_readlink,
 	.get_link = simple_get_link,
 	.setattr = orangefs_setattr,