iget: introduce a function to register iget failure

Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path.  This
includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and
releasing it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 2925f7011ece..d202600d36bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1780,6 +1780,7 @@ static inline struct inode *iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 }
 
 extern void __iget(struct inode * inode);
+extern void iget_failed(struct inode *);
 extern void clear_inode(struct inode *);
 extern void destroy_inode(struct inode *);
 extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *);