We must have a reference on inode, so ihold is cheaper. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/notify/mark.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/mark.c b/fs/notify/mark.c index d32ab349db74..80459db58f63 100644 --- a/fs/notify/mark.c +++ b/fs/notify/mark.c @@ -493,8 +493,11 @@ static int fsnotify_attach_connector_to_object(fsnotify_connp_t *connp, conn->fsid.val[0] = conn->fsid.val[1] = 0; conn->flags = 0; } - if (conn->type == FSNOTIFY_OBJ_TYPE_INODE) - inode = igrab(fsnotify_conn_inode(conn)); + if (conn->type == FSNOTIFY_OBJ_TYPE_INODE) { + inode = fsnotify_conn_inode(conn); + ihold(inode); + } + /* * cmpxchg() provides the barrier so that readers of *connp can see * only initialized structure -- 2.25.1