new helper: ihold()

Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2010-10-23 11:11:40 -04:00
parent 646ec4615c
commit 7de9c6ee3e
40 changed files with 57 additions and 49 deletions

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@@ -111,10 +111,9 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const char *name,
path.mnt = mntget(anon_inode_mnt);
/*
* We know the anon_inode inode count is always greater than zero,
* so we can avoid doing an igrab() and we can use an open-coded
* atomic_inc().
* so ihold() is safe.
*/
atomic_inc(&anon_inode_inode->i_count);
ihold(anon_inode_inode);
path.dentry->d_op = &anon_inodefs_dentry_operations;
d_instantiate(path.dentry, anon_inode_inode);