diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 4feb85cc125f2c345120e8f8ef7eb952f28d1684..740cba79c2b928b44f9e0d0a77ff78f475f3fe49 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1284,6 +1284,56 @@ struct inode *ilookup(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ilookup);
 
+/**
+ * find_inode_nowait - find an inode in the inode cache
+ * @sb:		super block of file system to search
+ * @hashval:	hash value (usually inode number) to search for
+ * @match:	callback used for comparisons between inodes
+ * @data:	opaque data pointer to pass to @match
+ *
+ * Search for the inode specified by @hashval and @data in the inode
+ * cache, where the helper function @match will return 0 if the inode
+ * does not match, 1 if the inode does match, and -1 if the search
+ * should be stopped.  The @match function must be responsible for
+ * taking the i_lock spin_lock and checking i_state for an inode being
+ * freed or being initialized, and incrementing the reference count
+ * before returning 1.  It also must not sleep, since it is called with
+ * the inode_hash_lock spinlock held.
+ *
+ * This is a even more generalized version of ilookup5() when the
+ * function must never block --- find_inode() can block in
+ * __wait_on_freeing_inode() --- or when the caller can not increment
+ * the reference count because the resulting iput() might cause an
+ * inode eviction.  The tradeoff is that the @match funtion must be
+ * very carefully implemented.
+ */
+struct inode *find_inode_nowait(struct super_block *sb,
+				unsigned long hashval,
+				int (*match)(struct inode *, unsigned long,
+					     void *),
+				void *data)
+{
+	struct hlist_head *head = inode_hashtable + hash(sb, hashval);
+	struct inode *inode, *ret_inode = NULL;
+	int mval;
+
+	spin_lock(&inode_hash_lock);
+	hlist_for_each_entry(inode, head, i_hash) {
+		if (inode->i_sb != sb)
+			continue;
+		mval = match(inode, hashval, data);
+		if (mval == 0)
+			continue;
+		if (mval == 1)
+			ret_inode = inode;
+		goto out;
+	}
+out:
+	spin_unlock(&inode_hash_lock);
+	return ret_inode;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_inode_nowait);
+
 int insert_inode_locked(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index cd027ce2c705523f3ee15996381c02576c3d1530..5ea8b6e46a3d604d2de5f2c3623ca695dec672cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2441,6 +2441,11 @@ extern struct inode *ilookup(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino);
 
 extern struct inode * iget5_locked(struct super_block *, unsigned long, int (*test)(struct inode *, void *), int (*set)(struct inode *, void *), void *);
 extern struct inode * iget_locked(struct super_block *, unsigned long);
+extern struct inode *find_inode_nowait(struct super_block *,
+				       unsigned long,
+				       int (*match)(struct inode *,
+						    unsigned long, void *),
+				       void *data);
 extern int insert_inode_locked4(struct inode *, unsigned long, int (*test)(struct inode *, void *), void *);
 extern int insert_inode_locked(struct inode *);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC