diff --git a/lib/fault-inject.c b/lib/fault-inject.c
index 328d43357ed2..4f7554025e30 100644
--- a/lib/fault-inject.c
+++ b/lib/fault-inject.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * setup_fault_attr() is a helper function for various __setup handlers, so it
  * returns 0 on error, because that is what __setup handlers do.
  */
-int __init setup_fault_attr(struct fault_attr *attr, char *str)
+int setup_fault_attr(struct fault_attr *attr, char *str)
 {
 	unsigned long probability;
 	unsigned long interval;
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ int __init setup_fault_attr(struct fault_attr *attr, char *str)
 
 	return 1;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(setup_fault_attr);
 
 static void fail_dump(struct fault_attr *attr)
 {