diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/lib.h b/security/apparmor/include/lib.h
index 550a700563b43ecb6546509bd976998e3e2ac578..89524aade6575e1405090148772b6c80ccb0e13c 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/lib.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/lib.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 extern int apparmor_initialized;
 
 /* fn's in lib */
+const char *skipn_spaces(const char *str, size_t n);
 char *aa_split_fqname(char *args, char **ns_name);
 const char *aa_splitn_fqname(const char *fqname, size_t n, const char **ns_name,
 			     size_t *ns_len);
diff --git a/security/apparmor/lib.c b/security/apparmor/lib.c
index 7cd788a9445be4c033e5e7f099ca26de5c678858..864b2fa45852af596e8f73899283a1b2da8ccaf0 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lib.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lib.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ char *aa_split_fqname(char *fqname, char **ns_name)
  * if all whitespace will return NULL
  */
 
-static const char *skipn_spaces(const char *str, size_t n)
+const char *skipn_spaces(const char *str, size_t n)
 {
 	for (; n && isspace(*str); --n)
 		++str;