diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/CheckStyleTask.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/CheckStyleTask.java
index 93e4cf03e..a0cb8e35f 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/CheckStyleTask.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/CheckStyleTask.java
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ public class CheckStyleTask
         }
         for (int i = 0; i < mFileSets.size(); i++) {
             final FileSet fs = (FileSet) mFileSets.get(i);
-            final DirectoryScanner ds = fs.getDirectoryScanner(project);
+            final DirectoryScanner ds = fs.getDirectoryScanner(getProject());
             ds.scan();
 
             final String[] names = ds.getIncludedFiles();