new helper: ihold()
Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index e257172..0fac7fe 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1580,7 +1580,7 @@
d_drop(dentry);
error = NFS_PROTO(dir)->link(inode, dir, &dentry->d_name);
if (error == 0) {
- atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+ ihold(inode);
d_add(dentry, inode);
}
return error;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/getroot.c b/fs/nfs/getroot.c
index a70e446..ac7b814 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/getroot.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/getroot.c
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@
iput(inode);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- /* Circumvent igrab(): we know the inode is not being freed */
- atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+ ihold(inode);
/*
* Ensure that this dentry is invisible to d_find_alias().
* Otherwise, it may be spliced into the tree by