diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h
index 392793582956c88c262349887468ecebc0539b08..d5f178359f25a31db9ec9c51ae07ebddee0520d7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
 #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_private.h>
 #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_cpu.h>
 #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_prim.h>
-#include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_time.h>
 #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_string.h>
 #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_hash.h>
 #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_fail.h>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_time.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_time.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 172a8872e3f30870aeed22d4f653a5b5caeca2da..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_time.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * GPL HEADER START
- *
- * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only,
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- * General Public License version 2 for more details (a copy is included
- * in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code).
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * version 2 along with this program; If not, see
- * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
- *
- * GPL HEADER END
- */
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- * Use is subject to license terms.
- */
-/*
- * This file is part of Lustre, http://www.lustre.org/
- * Lustre is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- *
- * libcfs/include/libcfs/libcfs_time.h
- *
- * Time functions.
- *
- */
-
-#ifndef __LIBCFS_TIME_H__
-#define __LIBCFS_TIME_H__
-/*
- * return valid time-out based on user supplied one. Currently we only check
- * that time-out is not shorted than allowed.
- */
-static inline long cfs_timeout_cap(long timeout)
-{
-	if (timeout < CFS_TICK)
-		timeout = CFS_TICK;
-	return timeout;
-}
-
-#endif
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/linux/linux-time.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/linux/linux-time.h
index ff3aae2f1231f4cb38f2f0352f79549ce0179889..ecb2126a9e6f47d3c6a32dffb85f48a275f06bf5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/linux/linux-time.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/linux/linux-time.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static inline int cfs_time_beforeq_64(u64 t1, u64 t2)
 /*
  * One jiffy
  */
-#define CFS_TICK		(1)
+#define CFS_TICK		(1UL)
 
 #define CFS_DURATION_T	  "%ld"
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c
index 4a9d1f189d01bb305ebc059998b2437f67654e3a..dd4fd54128dd0529c33640b797b5cae8edb65d8f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ int ptlrpc_disconnect_import(struct obd_import *imp, int noclose)
 	}
 
 	if (ptlrpc_import_in_recovery(imp)) {
-		long timeout;
+		unsigned long timeout;
 
 		if (AT_OFF) {
 			if (imp->imp_server_timeout)
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ int ptlrpc_disconnect_import(struct obd_import *imp, int noclose)
 
 		if (wait_event_idle_timeout(imp->imp_recovery_waitq,
 					    !ptlrpc_import_in_recovery(imp),
-					    cfs_timeout_cap(timeout)) == 0)
+					    max(timeout, CFS_TICK)) == 0)
 			l_wait_event_abortable(
 				imp->imp_recovery_waitq,
 				!ptlrpc_import_in_recovery(imp));