nfs: add a nfs_ilookup helper

This helper will allow to find an existing NFS inode by the file handle
and fattr.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@primarydata.com>
[hch: split from a larger patch]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 7e7a894..109279d 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -386,6 +386,28 @@ void nfs_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fattr,
 #endif
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_setsecurity);
 
+/* Search for inode identified by fh, fileid and i_mode in inode cache. */
+struct inode *
+nfs_ilookup(struct super_block *sb, struct nfs_fattr *fattr, struct nfs_fh *fh)
+{
+	struct nfs_find_desc desc = {
+		.fh	= fh,
+		.fattr	= fattr,
+	};
+	struct inode *inode;
+	unsigned long hash;
+
+	if (!(fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_FILEID) ||
+	    !(fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_TYPE))
+		return NULL;
+
+	hash = nfs_fattr_to_ino_t(fattr);
+	inode = ilookup5(sb, hash, nfs_find_actor, &desc);
+
+	dprintk("%s: returning %p\n", __func__, inode);
+	return inode;
+}
+
 /*
  * This is our front-end to iget that looks up inodes by file handle
  * instead of inode number.