diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d2334229167f48d8a9101570ce55de10506000af..6261bfc128536355a9c0bcd1cb29ddd940390a09 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -3053,6 +3053,9 @@ extern bool current_is_single_threaded(void);
 #define for_each_process_thread(p, t)	\
 	for_each_process(p) for_each_thread(p, t)
 
+typedef int (*proc_visitor)(struct task_struct *p, void *data);
+void walk_process_tree(struct task_struct *top, proc_visitor, void *);
+
 static inline int get_nr_threads(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	return tsk->signal->nr_threads;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 11c5c8ab827c4be8ef8cb09072de2364d90aff6c..135b7a49ad59031cb4e0cea42cdbb91ec1f795bc 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2053,6 +2053,38 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
 }
 #endif
 
+void walk_process_tree(struct task_struct *top, proc_visitor visitor, void *data)
+{
+	struct task_struct *leader, *parent, *child;
+	int res;
+
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	leader = top = top->group_leader;
+down:
+	for_each_thread(leader, parent) {
+		list_for_each_entry(child, &parent->children, sibling) {
+			res = visitor(child, data);
+			if (res) {
+				if (res < 0)
+					goto out;
+				leader = child;
+				goto down;
+			}
+up:
+			;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (leader != top) {
+		child = leader;
+		parent = child->real_parent;
+		leader = parent->group_leader;
+		goto up;
+	}
+out:
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+}
+
 #ifndef ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN
 #define ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN 0
 #endif