diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index ae50208..07f6556 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -651,9 +651,9 @@
  * key here is the 'actor' worker passed in that actually moves the data
  * to the wanted destination. See pipe_to_file/pipe_to_sendpage above.
  */
-static ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
-				  struct file *out, loff_t *ppos, size_t len,
-				  unsigned int flags, splice_actor *actor)
+ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+			   struct file *out, loff_t *ppos, size_t len,
+			   unsigned int flags, splice_actor *actor)
 {
 	int ret, do_wakeup, err;
 	struct splice_desc sd;
@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@
 
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__splice_from_pipe);
 
 ssize_t splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
 			 loff_t *ppos, size_t len, unsigned int flags,