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/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index abf3e2561521..d223725f99e5 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static int sock_alloc_file(struct socket *sock, struct file **f, int flags)
                   &socket_file_ops);
         if (unlikely(!file)) {
                 /* drop dentry, keep inode */
-                atomic_inc(&path.dentry->d_inode->i_count);
+                ihold(path.dentry->d_inode);
                 path_put(&path);
                 put_unused_fd(fd);
                 return -ENFILE;