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-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 1f9a3a2b89bc..6d695037a0a3 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ static void generic_forget_inode(struct inode *inode)
* inode when the usage count drops to zero, and
* i_nlink is zero.
*/
-static void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
+void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
if (!inode->i_nlink)
generic_delete_inode(inode);
@@ -1060,6 +1060,8 @@ static void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
generic_forget_inode(inode);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_drop_inode);
+
/*
* Called when we're dropping the last reference
* to an inode.
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 047bde30836a..302ec20838ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ extern struct inode * igrab(struct inode *);
extern ino_t iunique(struct super_block *, ino_t);
extern int inode_needs_sync(struct inode *inode);
extern void generic_delete_inode(struct inode *inode);
+extern void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode);
extern struct inode *ilookup5(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long hashval,
int (*test)(struct inode *, void *), void *data);