It is a common special case for new_inode to initialize the time to the current time and the inode to get_next_ino(). Introduce a core function that does it.
Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito eesposit@redhat.com --- fs/libfs.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index 54e07ae986ca..3fa0cd27ab06 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -594,6 +594,26 @@ int simple_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_write_end);
+/** + * new_inode_current_time - create new inode by initializing the + * time to the current time and the inode to get_next_ino() + * @sb: pointer to super block of the file system + * + * Returns an inode pointer on success, NULL on failure. + */ +struct inode *new_inode_current_time(struct super_block *sb) +{ + struct inode *inode = new_inode(sb); + + if (inode) { + inode->i_ino = get_next_ino(); + inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = + inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode); + } + return inode; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode_current_time); + /* * the inodes created here are not hashed. If you use iunique to generate * unique inode values later for this filesystem, then you must take care diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index a3691c132b3a..de2577df30ae 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3088,6 +3088,7 @@ extern void clear_inode(struct inode *); extern void __destroy_inode(struct inode *); extern struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb); extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb); +extern struct inode *new_inode_current_time(struct super_block *sb); extern void free_inode_nonrcu(struct inode *inode); extern int should_remove_suid(struct dentry *); extern int file_remove_privs(struct file *);