From 7de9c6ee3ecffd99e1628e81a5ea5468f7581a1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:11:40 -0400 Subject: new helper: ihold() Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/anon_inodes.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/anon_inodes.c') diff --git a/fs/anon_inodes.c b/fs/anon_inodes.c index e4b75d6eda83..9c8e87b0361f 100644 --- a/fs/anon_inodes.c +++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c @@ -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); -- cgit v1.2.3