diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 22b7ec192272..d95b5b8c1ffc 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -915,6 +915,33 @@ ssize_t tcp_splice_read(struct socket *sock, loff_t *ppos,
 }
 EXPORT_IPV6_MOD(tcp_splice_read);
 
+/* We allow to exceed memory limits for FIN packets to expedite
+ * connection tear down and (memory) recovery.
+ * Otherwise tcp_send_fin() could be tempted to either delay FIN
+ * or even be forced to close flow without any FIN.
+ * In general, we want to allow one skb per socket to avoid hangs
+ * with edge trigger epoll()
+ */
+void sk_forced_mem_schedule(struct sock *sk, int size)
+{
+	int delta, amt;
+
+	delta = size - sk->sk_forward_alloc;
+	if (delta <= 0)
+		return;
+
+	amt = sk_mem_pages(delta);
+	sk_forward_alloc_add(sk, amt << PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	if (mem_cgroup_sk_enabled(sk))
+		mem_cgroup_sk_charge(sk, amt, gfp_memcg_charge() | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+
+	if (sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem)
+		return;
+
+	sk_memory_allocated_add(sk, amt);
+}
+
 struct sk_buff *tcp_stream_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, gfp_t gfp,
 				     bool force_schedule)
 {
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 256b669e8d3b..597e888af36d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -3767,33 +3767,6 @@ void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *sk)
 				     inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto, true);
 }
 
-/* We allow to exceed memory limits for FIN packets to expedite
- * connection tear down and (memory) recovery.
- * Otherwise tcp_send_fin() could be tempted to either delay FIN
- * or even be forced to close flow without any FIN.
- * In general, we want to allow one skb per socket to avoid hangs
- * with edge trigger epoll()
- */
-void sk_forced_mem_schedule(struct sock *sk, int size)
-{
-	int delta, amt;
-
-	delta = size - sk->sk_forward_alloc;
-	if (delta <= 0)
-		return;
-
-	amt = sk_mem_pages(delta);
-	sk_forward_alloc_add(sk, amt << PAGE_SHIFT);
-
-	if (mem_cgroup_sk_enabled(sk))
-		mem_cgroup_sk_charge(sk, amt, gfp_memcg_charge() | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-
-	if (sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem)
-		return;
-
-	sk_memory_allocated_add(sk, amt);
-}
-
 /* Send a FIN. The caller locks the socket for us.
  * We should try to send a FIN packet really hard, but eventually give up.
  */