new helper: ihold()

Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/getroot.c b/fs/nfs/getroot.c
index a70e446e160..ac7b814ce16 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/getroot.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/getroot.c
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ static int nfs_superblock_set_dummy_root(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *i
                         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