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authorAlexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>2002-02-18 22:11:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@penguin.transmeta.com>2002-02-18 22:11:33 -0800
commit9e87dd22c04524941fd5346d5bf17f47a9dbae2e (patch)
treec5f8f7704407b03fbefb9e60b3c64bb5d0f99cdd /include
parente3a17d17d6d356f73505d9d696546c122157e466 (diff)
[PATCH] (2/4) 2.5.5-pre1 fixes
helper for safe access to parent's inumber
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index aa4e95913890..1411debc77dc 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1508,6 +1508,15 @@ extern int generic_osync_inode(struct inode *, int);
extern int inode_change_ok(struct inode *, struct iattr *);
extern int inode_setattr(struct inode *, struct iattr *);
+static inline ino_t parent_ino(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ ino_t res;
+ spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+ res = dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_ino;
+ spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+ return res;
+}
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_FS_H */