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| author | Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> | 2016-03-07 14:11:01 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-03-09 16:36:13 -0500 |
| commit | f4a00aacdb5f6784d46e8c999b6bb52ece4b306b (patch) | |
| tree | 6f6c67bede3482e965eef8cda5e82f3cf7fbecb1 | |
| parent | ff3c44e675054533403909ecb76e78c1d4efbd26 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f4a00aacdb5f6784d46e8c999b6bb52ece4b306b.tar.gz lwn-f4a00aacdb5f6784d46e8c999b6bb52ece4b306b.zip | |
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.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/socket.c | 3 |
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 |