--- /dev/null
+diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+index fa0f45ae..8f89024e 100644
+--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
++++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+@@ -2239,6 +2239,12 @@ extern int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *, struct inode *);
+ extern int ext4_orphan_del(handle_t *, struct inode *);
+ extern int ext4_htree_fill_tree(struct file *dir_file, __u32 start_hash,
+ __u32 start_minor_hash, __u32 *next_hash);
++extern struct inode *ext4_create_inode(handle_t *handle,
++ struct inode *dir, int mode,
++ uid_t *owner);
++extern int ext4_delete_entry(handle_t *handle, struct inode * dir,
++ struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de_del,
++ struct buffer_head *bh);
+ extern int search_dir(struct buffer_head *bh,
+ char *search_buf,
+ int buf_size,
+diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
+index 8e265e61..77d0782c 100644
+--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
++++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
+@@ -2176,7 +2176,7 @@ int ext4_generic_delete_entry(handle_t *handle,
+ return -ENOENT;
+ }
+
+-static int ext4_delete_entry(handle_t *handle,
++int ext4_delete_entry(handle_t *handle,
+ struct inode *dir,
+ struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de_del,
+ struct buffer_head *bh)
+@@ -2216,7 +2216,7 @@ out:
+ ext4_std_error(dir->i_sb, err);
+ return err;
+ }
+-
++EXPORT_SYMBOL(ext4_delete_entry);
+ /*
+ * DIR_NLINK feature is set if 1) nlinks > EXT4_LINK_MAX or 2) nlinks == 2,
+ * since this indicates that nlinks count was previously 1.
+@@ -2263,6 +2263,29 @@ static int ext4_add_nondir(handle_t *handle,
+ return err;
+ }
+
++ /* Return locked inode, then the caller can modify the inode's states/flags
++ * before others finding it. The caller should unlock the inode by itself. */
++struct inode *ext4_create_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir, int mode,
++ uid_t *owner)
++{
++ struct inode *inode;
++
++ inode = ext4_new_inode(handle, dir, mode, NULL, 0, owner);
++ if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
++ if (S_ISCHR(mode) || S_ISBLK(mode) || S_ISFIFO(mode)) {
++#ifdef CONFIG_LDISKFS_FS_XATTR
++ inode->i_op = &ext4_special_inode_operations;
++#endif
++ } else {
++ inode->i_op = &ext4_file_inode_operations;
++ inode->i_fop = &ext4_file_operations;
++ ext4_set_aops(inode);
++ }
++ }
++ return inode;
++}
++EXPORT_SYMBOL(ext4_create_inode);
++
+ /*
+ * By the time this is called, we already have created
+ * the directory cache entry for the new file, but it