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, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c
index 71efb0e9a3f2..f8aecd2e3297 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static int ext2_link (struct dentry * old_dentry, struct inode * dir,
 
         inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC;
         inode_inc_link_count(inode);
-        atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+        ihold(inode);
 
         err = ext2_add_link(dentry, inode);
         if (!err) {