diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index 5cfbc723041c7db3f3481e3259f8bac0d60c700b..2541cf043ba8cf477694e6bf510cc65de2a38d57 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -1124,7 +1124,8 @@ int __init blkcg_policy_register(struct blkcg_policy *pol)
 
 	/* everything is in place, add intf files for the new policy */
 	if (pol->cftypes)
-		WARN_ON(cgroup_add_cftypes(&blkio_cgrp_subsys, pol->cftypes));
+		WARN_ON(cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(&blkio_cgrp_subsys,
+						  pol->cftypes));
 	ret = 0;
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&blkcg_pol_mutex);
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index a6e9c2eeab89fe0b05f57de4747f94a1c80f1c24..f5f0feef2701b4c3d70f8ce6764893a3069e36c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static inline void pr_cont_cgroup_path(struct cgroup *cgrp)
 
 char *task_cgroup_path(struct task_struct *task, char *buf, size_t buflen);
 
-int cgroup_add_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts);
+int cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts);
 int cgroup_rm_cftypes(struct cftype *cfts);
 
 bool cgroup_is_descendant(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *ancestor);
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 6496a83b0314d2e2623ab29c4e54de08dc748ee4..c275aa439a6fb9045e47463b25a556376040344a 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -3170,7 +3170,7 @@ int cgroup_rm_cftypes(struct cftype *cfts)
  * function currently returns 0 as long as @cfts registration is successful
  * even if some file creation attempts on existing cgroups fail.
  */
-int cgroup_add_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts)
+static int cgroup_add_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts)
 {
 	int ret;
 
@@ -3195,6 +3195,11 @@ int cgroup_add_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts)
+{
+	return cgroup_add_cftypes(ss, cfts);
+}
+
 /**
  * cgroup_task_count - count the number of tasks in a cgroup.
  * @cgrp: the cgroup in question
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
index 493f758445e724d5b1b67383c24bf20436557a3a..9aae6f47433f8a569145c4ae97e362f617784fd2 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
@@ -358,9 +358,8 @@ static void __init __hugetlb_cgroup_file_init(int idx)
 	cft = &h->cgroup_files[4];
 	memset(cft, 0, sizeof(*cft));
 
-	WARN_ON(cgroup_add_cftypes(&hugetlb_cgrp_subsys, h->cgroup_files));
-
-	return;
+	WARN_ON(cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(&hugetlb_cgrp_subsys,
+					  h->cgroup_files));
 }
 
 void __init hugetlb_cgroup_file_init(void)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 8331f2739e2c42c1dda74795a86da51d028a26ed..b6b3c6fea509380214e24b287bc29f622b3b7b42 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -7065,7 +7065,8 @@ __setup("swapaccount=", enable_swap_account);
 
 static void __init memsw_file_init(void)
 {
-	WARN_ON(cgroup_add_cftypes(&memory_cgrp_subsys, memsw_cgroup_files));
+	WARN_ON(cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(&memory_cgrp_subsys,
+					  memsw_cgroup_files));
 }
 
 static void __init enable_swap_cgroup(void)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_memcontrol.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_memcontrol.c
index f7a2ec3ac584573f52287e8d6bd1514637beb561..3af522622fad1fe7b400cb7caf07425502358550 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_memcontrol.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_memcontrol.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static struct cftype tcp_files[] = {
 
 static int __init tcp_memcontrol_init(void)
 {
-	WARN_ON(cgroup_add_cftypes(&memory_cgrp_subsys, tcp_files));
+	WARN_ON(cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(&memory_cgrp_subsys, tcp_files));
 	return 0;
 }
 __initcall(tcp_memcontrol_init);