diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
index da5404ab75691c58e3d69c89ea1a3f8ba1fd993b..cb12ae175aa2de80b3114434c20e64cac4857593 100644
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -247,12 +247,6 @@ control to Kprobes.)  If the probed function is declared asmlinkage,
 fastcall, or anything else that affects how args are passed, the
 handler's declaration must match.
 
-NOTE: A macro JPROBE_ENTRY is provided to handle architecture-specific
-aliasing of jp->entry. In the interest of portability, it is advised
-to use:
-
-	jp->entry = JPROBE_ENTRY(handler);
-
 register_jprobe() returns 0 on success, or a negative errno otherwise.
 
 4.3 register_kretprobe
@@ -518,7 +512,7 @@ long jdo_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
 }
 
 static struct jprobe my_jprobe = {
-	.entry = JPROBE_ENTRY(jdo_fork)
+	.entry = jdo_fork
 };
 
 static int __init jprobe_init(void)
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h b/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h
index 8774d06689daa3eb53cdbdb2727bc8827b5e09bf..06f7303c30ca15d111061cfcace36ec043b9362d 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
 	? (MAX_STACK_SIZE) \
 	: (((unsigned long)current_thread_info()) + THREAD_SIZE - (ADDR)))
 
-#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)	(kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
 #define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 0
 #define flush_insn_slot(p)	do { } while (0)
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h b/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h
index 6382e52ec2272b1ec39f4ea3432e061e75c51b1e..067d9dea68f9d627f41ba634e7169185bafcf5e4 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h
@@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ struct kprobe_ctlblk {
 	struct prev_kprobe prev_kprobe[ARCH_PREV_KPROBE_SZ];
 };
 
-#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)	(kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
-
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
 #define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 1
 
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
index 9537fda238b897a8277be4be6ca76b15ef7ed260..8b08b447d6f31e2e300e39b3813dd090b7c2233f 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
@@ -73,12 +73,10 @@ typedef unsigned int kprobe_opcode_t;
 	}								\
 }
 
-#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)	(kprobe_opcode_t *)((func_descr_t *)pentry)
 #define is_trap(instr)	(IS_TW(instr) || IS_TD(instr) || \
 			IS_TWI(instr) || IS_TDI(instr))
 #else
 /* Use stock kprobe_lookup_name since ppc32 doesn't use function descriptors */
-#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)	(kprobe_opcode_t *)(pentry)
 #define is_trap(instr)	(IS_TW(instr) || IS_TWI(instr))
 #endif
 
diff --git a/include/asm-s390/kprobes.h b/include/asm-s390/kprobes.h
index 830fe4c4eea60a529975b7d78abc98388466fc88..340ba10446ea46d2aeca453903532bc537627610 100644
--- a/include/asm-s390/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-s390/kprobes.h
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ typedef u16 kprobe_opcode_t;
 	? (MAX_STACK_SIZE) \
 	: (((unsigned long)current_thread_info()) + THREAD_SIZE - (ADDR)))
 
-#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry) (kprobe_opcode_t *)(pentry)
-
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
 #define ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 0
 
diff --git a/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h b/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h
index a331b7b0dff2bd56ef5b6b35d28912838135bee0..7f6774dca5f49f778c434c055ab7355e3711a4c4 100644
--- a/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ typedef u32 kprobe_opcode_t;
 #define BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION_2 0x91d02071 /* ta 0x71 */
 #define MAX_INSN_SIZE 2
 
-#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)	(kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
 #define arch_remove_kprobe(p)	do {} while (0)
 #define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 0
 
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h b/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h
index cf5317898fb0fdc50301ad42123623a448f79262..7db825403e013129655fab261035b1391944c888 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
 	? (MAX_STACK_SIZE) \
 	: (((unsigned long)current_thread_info()) + THREAD_SIZE - (ADDR)))
 
-#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)	(kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
 #define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 1
 
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index f4e53b71d23ff04ed25815c6e33010b49cb2a399..bd892850c94aba7f5389a14de055045760dee4d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ struct jprobe {
 	void *entry;	/* probe handling code to jump to */
 };
 
+/* For backward compatibility with old code using JPROBE_ENTRY() */
+#define JPROBE_ENTRY(handler)	(handler)
+
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
 
diff --git a/net/dccp/probe.c b/net/dccp/probe.c
index 43a3adb027e7593ba9b15b366f3ae7d1b7843325..bae10b0f2fc3ca5dae81d239245503e034692ad6 100644
--- a/net/dccp/probe.c
+++ b/net/dccp/probe.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static struct jprobe dccp_send_probe = {
 	.kp	= {
 		.symbol_name = "dccp_sendmsg",
 	},
-	.entry	= JPROBE_ENTRY(jdccp_sendmsg),
+	.entry	= jdccp_sendmsg,
 };
 
 static int dccpprobe_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c
index f37d5928921ad3f156465836f275c38595b9dfbb..b76398d1b4547d291e52051276c80ff7df36880b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static struct jprobe tcp_jprobe = {
 	.kp = {
 		.symbol_name	= "tcp_rcv_established",
 	},
-	.entry	= JPROBE_ENTRY(jtcp_rcv_established),
+	.entry	= jtcp_rcv_established,
 };
 
 static int tcpprobe_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)