diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.c
index 985872b82da..335f22b9208 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.c
@@ -190,4 +190,17 @@ int id128_compare_func(const sd_id128_t *a, const sd_id128_t *b) {
         return memcmp(a, b, 16);
 }
 
+sd_id128_t id128_make_v4_uuid(sd_id128_t id) {
+        /* Stolen from generate_random_uuid() of drivers/char/random.c
+         * in the kernel sources */
+
+        /* Set UUID version to 4 --- truly random generation */
+        id.bytes[6] = (id.bytes[6] & 0x0F) | 0x40;
+
+        /* Set the UUID variant to DCE */
+        id.bytes[8] = (id.bytes[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80;
+
+        return id;
+}
+
 DEFINE_HASH_OPS(id128_hash_ops, sd_id128_t, id128_hash_func, id128_compare_func);
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.h b/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.h
index fe0149a8aa1..1901bf119ff 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.h
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/id128-util.h
@@ -30,3 +30,5 @@ int id128_write(const char *p, Id128Format f, sd_id128_t id, bool do_sync);
 void id128_hash_func(const sd_id128_t *p, struct siphash *state);
 int id128_compare_func(const sd_id128_t *a, const sd_id128_t *b) _pure_;
 extern const struct hash_ops id128_hash_ops;
+
+sd_id128_t id128_make_v4_uuid(sd_id128_t id);
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/sd-id128.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/sd-id128.c
index b331a6b432f..9b38ef0c563 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/sd-id128.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-id128/sd-id128.c
@@ -250,19 +250,6 @@ _public_ int sd_id128_get_invocation(sd_id128_t *ret) {
         return 0;
 }
 
-static sd_id128_t make_v4_uuid(sd_id128_t id) {
-        /* Stolen from generate_random_uuid() of drivers/char/random.c
-         * in the kernel sources */
-
-        /* Set UUID version to 4 --- truly random generation */
-        id.bytes[6] = (id.bytes[6] & 0x0F) | 0x40;
-
-        /* Set the UUID variant to DCE */
-        id.bytes[8] = (id.bytes[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-
-        return id;
-}
-
 _public_ int sd_id128_randomize(sd_id128_t *ret) {
         sd_id128_t t;
         int r;
@@ -279,7 +266,7 @@ _public_ int sd_id128_randomize(sd_id128_t *ret) {
          * only guarantee this for newly generated UUIDs, not for
          * pre-existing ones. */
 
-        *ret = make_v4_uuid(t);
+        *ret = id128_make_v4_uuid(t);
         return 0;
 }
 
@@ -306,7 +293,7 @@ static int get_app_specific(sd_id128_t base, sd_id128_t app_id, sd_id128_t *ret)
         /* We chop off the trailing 16 bytes */
         memcpy(&result, p, MIN(khash_get_size(h), sizeof(result)));
 
-        *ret = make_v4_uuid(result);
+        *ret = id128_make_v4_uuid(result);
         return 0;
 }