new helper: ihold()

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

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

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index e257172d438c..0fac7fea18ef 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1580,7 +1580,7 @@ nfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
         d_drop(dentry);
         error = NFS_PROTO(dir)->link(inode, dir, &dentry->d_name);
         if (error == 0) {
-                atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+                ihold(inode);
                 d_add(dentry, inode);
         }
         return error;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/getroot.c b/fs/nfs/getroot.c
index a70e446e1605..ac7b814ce162 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