diff --git a/fs/nfs/dns_resolve.c b/fs/nfs/dns_resolve.c
index 55bc5d11457cac9998377179050f47a886a79680..9455270922958f420a7f31101cac1b6ac7b14bfb 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dns_resolve.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dns_resolve.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static int nfs_dns_upcall(struct cache_detail *cd,
 
 	ret = nfs_cache_upcall(cd, key->hostname);
 	if (ret)
-		ret = sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(cd, ch, cd->cache_request);
+		ret = sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(cd, ch);
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
index 4f1c8582053c262485c63d9e75db078df0103aa6..303399b1ba5954a6de412114b15df8fc0def1514 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
@@ -161,11 +161,7 @@ sunrpc_cache_update(struct cache_detail *detail,
 		    struct cache_head *new, struct cache_head *old, int hash);
 
 extern int
-sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h,
-		void (*cache_request)(struct cache_detail *,
-				      struct cache_head *,
-				      char **,
-				      int *));
+sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h);
 
 
 extern void cache_clean_deferred(void *owner);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 51853d8ed0bcc17dacb70a7e2c0f35f359a750bd..8ffec5aebeff1294de2232dbebed7a5604d462ba 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int cache_make_upcall(struct cache_detail *cd, struct cache_head *h)
 {
 	if (cd->cache_upcall)
 		return cd->cache_upcall(cd, h);
-	return sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(cd, h, cd->cache_request);
+	return sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(cd, h);
 }
 
 static inline int cache_is_valid(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h)
@@ -1140,11 +1140,7 @@ static bool cache_listeners_exist(struct cache_detail *detail)
  *
  * Each request is at most one page long.
  */
-int sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h,
-		void (*cache_request)(struct cache_detail *,
-				      struct cache_head *,
-				      char **,
-				      int *))
+int sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h)
 {
 
 	char *buf;
@@ -1172,7 +1168,7 @@ int sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h,
 
 	bp = buf; len = PAGE_SIZE;
 
-	cache_request(detail, h, &bp, &len);
+	detail->cache_request(detail, h, &bp, &len);
 
 	if (len < 0) {
 		kfree(buf);