diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
index 91622db9aedffd997947642a5872802312346869..08dabcd8b6aefc6844bbb9d9e9c001e6ff71fb33 100644
--- a/block/partition-generic.c
+++ b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ const char *bdevname(struct block_device *bdev, char *buf)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdevname);
 
+const char *bio_devname(struct bio *bio, char *buf)
+{
+	return disk_name(bio->bi_disk, bio->bi_partno, buf);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_devname);
+
 /*
  * There's very little reason to use this, you should really
  * have a struct block_device just about everywhere and use
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index d0eb659fa733eb91b57a135932f45b1eea8d9975..ce547a25e8aed5d61efd5c0ce9b5c450af4fabcc 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -511,6 +511,7 @@ void zero_fill_bio(struct bio *bio);
 extern struct bio_vec *bvec_alloc(gfp_t, int, unsigned long *, mempool_t *);
 extern void bvec_free(mempool_t *, struct bio_vec *, unsigned int);
 extern unsigned int bvec_nr_vecs(unsigned short idx);
+extern const char *bio_devname(struct bio *bio, char *buffer);
 
 #define bio_set_dev(bio, bdev) 			\
 do {						\
@@ -529,9 +530,6 @@ do {						\
 #define bio_dev(bio) \
 	disk_devt((bio)->bi_disk)
 
-#define bio_devname(bio, buf) \
-	__bdevname(bio_dev(bio), (buf))
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
 int bio_associate_blkcg(struct bio *bio, struct cgroup_subsys_state *blkcg_css);
 void bio_disassociate_task(struct bio *bio);