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authorTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>2016-03-07 14:11:01 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-03-09 16:36:13 -0500
commitf4a00aacdb5f6784d46e8c999b6bb52ece4b306b (patch)
tree6f6c67bede3482e965eef8cda5e82f3cf7fbecb1
parentff3c44e675054533403909ecb76e78c1d4efbd26 (diff)
downloadlinux-f4a00aacdb5f6784d46e8c999b6bb52ece4b306b.tar.bz2
net: Make sock_alloc exportable
Export it for cases where we want to create sockets by hand. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/net.h1
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h
index 0b4ac7da583a..49175e4ced11 100644
--- a/include/linux/net.h
+++ b/include/linux/net.h
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ int __sock_create(struct net *net, int family, int type, int proto,
int sock_create(int family, int type, int proto, struct socket **res);
int sock_create_kern(struct net *net, int family, int type, int proto, struct socket **res);
int sock_create_lite(int family, int type, int proto, struct socket **res);
+struct socket *sock_alloc(void);
void sock_release(struct socket *sock);
int sock_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg);
int sock_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size,
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