diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3bdb29615a9d7e2655601c7151b4496c80b1a74b..b9fdda8c0930e5512fdab847db1f7063675185a1 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@
  * any extra contention...
  */
 
+static int fastcall link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd);
+
 /* In order to reduce some races, while at the same time doing additional
  * checking and hopefully speeding things up, we copy filenames to the
  * kernel data space before using them..
@@ -998,7 +1000,7 @@ static fastcall int __link_path_walk(const char * name, struct nameidata *nd)
  * Retry the whole path once, forcing real lookup requests
  * instead of relying on the dcache.
  */
-int fastcall link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
+static int fastcall link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
 	struct nameidata save = *nd;
 	int result;
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 2e21af0989d9dc603484fd75d622787696fe2342..18ea81265068f198cbfaad8aca3c35147cd5d0eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ extern int FASTCALL(path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *));
 extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
 			   const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *);
 extern int FASTCALL(path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *));
-extern int FASTCALL(link_path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *));
 extern void path_release(struct nameidata *);
 extern void path_release_on_umount(struct nameidata *);