diff --git a/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c b/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c
index 8395066341a4..7f7cb14e01ce 100644
--- a/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c
+++ b/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c
@@ -214,3 +214,29 @@ void utf8_unload(struct unicode_map *um)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(utf8_unload);
 
+/**
+ * utf8_parse_version - Parse a UTF-8 version number from a string
+ *
+ * @version: input string
+ *
+ * Returns the parsed version on success, negative code on error
+ */
+int utf8_parse_version(char *version)
+{
+	substring_t args[3];
+	unsigned int maj, min, rev;
+	static const struct match_token token[] = {
+		{1, "%d.%d.%d"},
+		{0, NULL}
+	};
+
+	if (match_token(version, token, args) != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (match_int(&args[0], &maj) || match_int(&args[1], &min) ||
+	    match_int(&args[2], &rev))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return UNICODE_AGE(maj, min, rev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(utf8_parse_version);
diff --git a/include/linux/unicode.h b/include/linux/unicode.h
index 0c0ab04e84ee..5e6b212a2aed 100644
--- a/include/linux/unicode.h
+++ b/include/linux/unicode.h
@@ -78,4 +78,6 @@ int utf8_casefold_hash(const struct unicode_map *um, const void *salt,
 struct unicode_map *utf8_load(unsigned int version);
 void utf8_unload(struct unicode_map *um);
 
+int utf8_parse_version(char *version);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_UNICODE_H */