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, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d43e8b6685a2..bd6ae6c71fc8 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2171,6 +2171,7 @@ extern loff_t vfs_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 
 extern int inode_init_always(struct super_block *, struct inode *);
 extern void inode_init_once(struct inode *);
+extern void ihold(struct inode * inode);
 extern void iput(struct inode *);
 extern struct inode * igrab(struct inode *);
 extern ino_t iunique(struct super_block *, ino_t);