new helper: ihold()

Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-23 11:11:40 -04:00
parent 646ec4615c
commit 7de9c6ee3e
40 changed files with 57 additions and 49 deletions
--- a/fs/sysv/namei.c
+++ b/fs/sysv/namei.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static int sysv_link(struct dentry * old_dentry, struct inode * dir,

 	inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC;
 	inode_inc_link_count(inode);
-	atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
+	ihold(inode);

 	return add_nondir(dentry, inode);
 }