Introduce path_get()

This introduces the symmetric function to path_put() for getting a reference
to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
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/path.h b/include/linux/path.h
index 4d976f959f33..915e0c382a51 100644
--- a/include/linux/path.h
+++ b/include/linux/path.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ struct path {
         struct dentry *dentry;
 };
 
+extern void path_get(struct path *);
 extern void path_put(struct path *);
 
 #endif  /* _LINUX_PATH_H */