Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index eba2eabcd2b8..16c211558c22 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -357,7 +357,18 @@ int seq_printf(struct seq_file *m, const char *f, ...)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_printf);
 
-static char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc)
+/**
+ *	mangle_path -	mangle and copy path to buffer beginning
+ *	@s: buffer start
+ *	@p: beginning of path in above buffer
+ *	@esc: set of characters that need escaping
+ *
+ *      Copy the path from @p to @s, replacing each occurrence of character from
+ *      @esc with usual octal escape.
+ *      Returns pointer past last written character in @s, or NULL in case of
+ *      failure.
+ */
+char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc)
 {
 	while (s <= p) {
 		char c = *p++;
@@ -376,6 +387,7 @@ static char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc)
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mangle_path);
 
 /*
  * return the absolute path of 'dentry' residing in mount 'mnt'.