diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index cf83e7c3bf59..26eb0a4afb22 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ca3f5a95b7d04eef0f88464f8d3299c1c01e8e13
+refs/heads/master: cb2c0233755429037462e16ea0d5497a0092738c
diff --git a/trunk/fs/inode.c b/trunk/fs/inode.c
index 1f9a3a2b89bc..6d695037a0a3 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/inode.c
+++ b/trunk/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/trunk/include/linux/fs.h b/trunk/include/linux/fs.h
index 047bde30836a..302ec20838ca 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/trunk/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);