From f4a00aacdb5f6784d46e8c999b6bb52ece4b306b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Herbert Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:11:01 -0800 Subject: net: Make sock_alloc exportable Export it for cases where we want to create sockets by hand. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/socket.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/socket.c') diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index c044d1e8508c..38a78d4d50f5 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations sockfs_inode_ops = { * NULL is returned. */ -static struct socket *sock_alloc(void) +struct socket *sock_alloc(void) { struct inode *inode; struct socket *sock; @@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ static struct socket *sock_alloc(void) this_cpu_add(sockets_in_use, 1); return sock; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_alloc); /** * sock_release - close a socket -- cgit