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/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 314c0d3b3fa9..bd39885b5998 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2312,7 +2312,7 @@ retry:
 
         inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
         ext4_inc_count(handle, inode);
-        atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+        ihold(inode);
 
         err = ext4_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode);
         if (!err) {