new helper: inode_wrong_type()

commit 6e3e2c4362e41a2f18e3f7a5ad81bd2f49a47b85 upstream.

inode_wrong_type(inode, mode) returns true if setting inode->i_mode
to given value would've changed the inode type.  We have enough of
those checks open-coded to make a helper worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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