diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index d6c74ffef8d2..6cc88ff53e0e 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 0d76751fad7739014485ba5bd388d4f1b4fd4143
+refs/heads/master: f408e0ce40270559ef80f231843c93baa9947bc5
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/genetlink.h b/trunk/include/linux/genetlink.h
index b834ef6d59fa..61549b26ad6f 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -80,4 +80,12 @@ enum {
 
 #define CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_MAX - 1)
 
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+/* All generic netlink requests are serialized by a global lock.  */
+extern void genl_lock(void);
+extern void genl_unlock(void);
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
 #endif	/* __LINUX_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */
diff --git a/trunk/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/trunk/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index a4b6e148c5de..a28fda7420d9 100644
--- a/trunk/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/trunk/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -20,15 +20,17 @@
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(genl_mutex); /* serialization of message processing */
 
-static inline void genl_lock(void)
+void genl_lock(void)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&genl_mutex);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_lock);
 
-static inline void genl_unlock(void)
+void genl_unlock(void)
 {
 	mutex_unlock(&genl_mutex);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_unlock);
 
 #define GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE	16
 #define GENL_FAM_TAB_MASK	(GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE - 1)