diff --git a/include/qemu/memfd.h b/include/qemu/memfd.h
index d551c28b68..975b6bdb77 100644
--- a/include/qemu/memfd.h
+++ b/include/qemu/memfd.h
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
 #define MFD_HUGE_SHIFT 26
 #endif
 
+#if defined CONFIG_LINUX && !defined CONFIG_MEMFD
+int memfd_create(const char *name, unsigned int flags);
+#endif
+
 int qemu_memfd_create(const char *name, size_t size, bool hugetlb,
                       uint64_t hugetlbsize, unsigned int seals, Error **errp);
 bool qemu_memfd_alloc_check(void);
diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index b42f59a32c..6928f654ce 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qemu/cutils.h"
 #include "qemu/path.h"
+#include "qemu/memfd.h"
 #include "qemu/queue.h"
 #include <elf.h>
 #include <endian.h>
@@ -11938,6 +11939,17 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1,
         /* PowerPC specific.  */
         return do_swapcontext(cpu_env, arg1, arg2, arg3);
 #endif
+#ifdef TARGET_NR_memfd_create
+    case TARGET_NR_memfd_create:
+        p = lock_user_string(arg1);
+        if (!p) {
+            return -TARGET_EFAULT;
+        }
+        ret = get_errno(memfd_create(p, arg2));
+        fd_trans_unregister(ret);
+        unlock_user(p, arg1, 0);
+        return ret;
+#endif
 
     default:
         qemu_log_mask(LOG_UNIMP, "Unsupported syscall: %d\n", num);
diff --git a/util/memfd.c b/util/memfd.c
index 00334e5b21..4a3c07e0be 100644
--- a/util/memfd.c
+++ b/util/memfd.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 #include <sys/syscall.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 
-static int memfd_create(const char *name, unsigned int flags)
+int memfd_create(const char *name, unsigned int flags)
 {
 #ifdef __NR_memfd_create
     return syscall(__NR_memfd_create, name, flags);