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/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 2dbf4877d7ef..304a5132ca27 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ int simple_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *den
 
         inode->i_ctime = dir->i_ctime = dir->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
         inc_nlink(inode);
-        atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+        ihold(inode);
         dget(dentry);
         d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
         return 0;