diff --git a/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c b/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
index a1d2112fd283f072861b37c2376ea182f5c0bbc5..c91d1e1382142991dfd7ea4b306c0a1f9dc46019 100644
--- a/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
+++ b/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
@@ -2666,32 +2666,37 @@ static int cdrom_ioctl_read_tochdr(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int cdrom_read_tocentry(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi,
+		struct cdrom_tocentry *entry)
+{
+	u8 requested_format = entry->cdte_format;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (requested_format != CDROM_MSF && requested_format != CDROM_LBA)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* make interface to low-level uniform */
+	entry->cdte_format = CDROM_MSF;
+	ret = cdi->ops->audio_ioctl(cdi, CDROMREADTOCENTRY, entry);
+	if (!ret)
+		sanitize_format(&entry->cdte_addr, &entry->cdte_format,
+				requested_format);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cdrom_read_tocentry);
+
 static int cdrom_ioctl_read_tocentry(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi,
 		void __user *argp)
 {
 	struct cdrom_tocentry entry;
-	u8 requested_format;
 	int ret;
 
-	/* cd_dbg(CD_DO_IOCTL, "entering CDROMREADTOCENTRY\n"); */
-
 	if (copy_from_user(&entry, argp, sizeof(entry)))
 		return -EFAULT;
-
-	requested_format = entry.cdte_format;
-	if (requested_format != CDROM_MSF && requested_format != CDROM_LBA)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	/* make interface to low-level uniform */
-	entry.cdte_format = CDROM_MSF;
-	ret = cdi->ops->audio_ioctl(cdi, CDROMREADTOCENTRY, &entry);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-	sanitize_format(&entry.cdte_addr, &entry.cdte_format, requested_format);
-
-	if (copy_to_user(argp, &entry, sizeof(entry)))
+	ret = cdrom_read_tocentry(cdi, &entry);
+	if (!ret && copy_to_user(argp, &entry, sizeof(entry)))
 		return -EFAULT;
-	/* cd_dbg(CD_DO_IOCTL, "CDROMREADTOCENTRY successful\n"); */
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int cdrom_ioctl_play_msf(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi,
diff --git a/include/linux/cdrom.h b/include/linux/cdrom.h
index 4f74ce050253d5d7165b8d4779182da842ecbff0..008c4d79fa3325a56cdbfd72d9a28a61cc2cfadd 100644
--- a/include/linux/cdrom.h
+++ b/include/linux/cdrom.h
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ struct cdrom_device_ops {
 			       struct packet_command *);
 };
 
+int cdrom_read_tocentry(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi,
+		struct cdrom_tocentry *entry);
+
 /* the general block_device operations structure: */
 extern int cdrom_open(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi, struct block_device *bdev,
 			fmode_t mode);