diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 970fb00..26cbe21 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -962,6 +962,28 @@
 	spin_unlock(&xprt->reserve_lock);
 }
 
+struct rpc_xprt *xprt_alloc(int size, int max_req)
+{
+	struct rpc_xprt *xprt;
+
+	xprt = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (xprt == NULL)
+		goto out;
+
+	xprt->max_reqs = max_req;
+	xprt->slot = kcalloc(max_req, sizeof(struct rpc_rqst), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (xprt->slot == NULL)
+		goto out_free;
+
+	return xprt;
+
+out_free:
+	kfree(xprt);
+out:
+	return NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xprt_alloc);
+
 /**
  * xprt_reserve - allocate an RPC request slot
  * @task: RPC task requesting a slot allocation