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, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index b737451e2e9..81972eb34b3 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdget);
  */
 struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev)
 {
-	atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
+	ihold(bdev->bd_inode);
 	return bdev;
 }
 
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static struct block_device *bd_acquire(struct inode *inode)
 	spin_lock(&bdev_lock);
 	bdev = inode->i_bdev;
 	if (bdev) {
-		atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
+		ihold(bdev->bd_inode);
 		spin_unlock(&bdev_lock);
 		return bdev;
 	}
@@ -591,12 +591,12 @@ static struct block_device *bd_acquire(struct inode *inode)
 		spin_lock(&bdev_lock);
 		if (!inode->i_bdev) {
 			/*
-			 * We take an additional bd_inode->i_count for inode,
+			 * We take an additional reference to bd_inode,
 			 * and it's released in clear_inode() of inode.
 			 * So, we can access it via ->i_mapping always
 			 * without igrab().
 			 */
-			atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
+			ihold(bdev->bd_inode);
 			inode->i_bdev = bdev;
 			inode->i_mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
 			list_add(&inode->i_devices, &bdev->bd_inodes);