[PATCH] fs: assert ->i_lock held in __iget()

Mateusz Guzik
2025-09-30T23:53:20Z

Also remove the now redundant comment.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
---

verified this booted with ext4 on root, no splats

include/linux/fs.h | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 9e9d7c757efe..4c773c4ee7aa 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3368,11 +3368,9 @@ static inline bool is_zero_ino(ino_t ino)
return (u32)ino == 0;
}

-/*
- * inode->i_lock must be held
- */
static inline void __iget(struct inode *inode)
{
+ lockdep_assert_held(&inode->i_lock);
atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
}

--
2.34.1