diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 61cd28ba25f364df5af103277924befb6d4a39a0..28e1dfc27b95748c835c8f74129ef1a85b78a466 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_setxattr);
 
-ssize_t
+static ssize_t
 xattr_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *value,
 			size_t size)
 {
@@ -254,7 +254,6 @@ xattr_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *value,
 out_noalloc:
 	return len;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xattr_getsecurity);
 
 /*
  * vfs_getxattr_alloc - allocate memory, if necessary, before calling getxattr
diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index d70f77a4b62ab2ca6eeaa18188beb649ce9334c8..6dad031be3c2db93dc4ec88bd74193c09ce96d58 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ struct xattr {
 	size_t value_len;
 };
 
-ssize_t xattr_getsecurity(struct inode *, const char *, void *, size_t);
 ssize_t __vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *, struct inode *, const char *, void *, size_t);
 ssize_t vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
 ssize_t vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *d, char *list, size_t size);