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/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f1ef97dbc6c4..f7dbc06857ab 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2285,7 +2285,7 @@ static long do_unlinkat(int dfd, const char __user *pathname)
                         goto slashes;
                 inode = dentry->d_inode;
                 if (inode)
-                        atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+                        ihold(inode);
                 error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt);
                 if (error)
                         goto exit2;