+/**
+ * cifs_new inode - create new inode, initialize, and hash it
+ * @sb - pointer to superblock
+ * @inum - if valid pointer and serverino is enabled, replace i_ino with val
+ *
+ * Create a new inode, initialize it for CIFS and hash it. Returns the new
+ * inode or NULL if one couldn't be allocated.
+ *
+ * If the share isn't mounted with "serverino" or inum is a NULL pointer then
+ * we'll just use the inode number assigned by new_inode(). Note that this can
+ * mean i_ino collisions since the i_ino assigned by new_inode is not
+ * guaranteed to be unique.
+ */
+struct inode *
+cifs_new_inode(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long *inum)
+{
+ struct inode *inode;
+
+ inode = new_inode(sb);
+ if (inode == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * BB: Is i_ino == 0 legal? Here, we assume that it is. If it isn't we
+ * stop passing inum as ptr. Are there sanity checks we can use to
+ * ensure that the server is really filling in that field? Also,
+ * if serverino is disabled, perhaps we should be using iunique()?
+ */
+ if (inum && (CIFS_SB(sb)->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SERVER_INUM))
+ inode->i_ino = *inum;
+
+ /*
+ * must set this here instead of cifs_alloc_inode since VFS will
+ * clobber i_flags
+ */
+ if (sb->s_flags & MS_NOATIME)
+ inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME | S_NOCMTIME;
+
+ insert_inode_hash(inode);
+
+ return inode;
+}
+