diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
index 9be484d11283f98b79a0bfed79e79c94481588fa..7c08052e332111a7aa14d3f4bd7f0390b2a390c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempool.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempool.h
@@ -47,22 +47,16 @@ mempool_create_slab_pool(int min_nr, struct kmem_cache *kc)
 }
 
 /*
- * 2 mempool_alloc_t's and a mempool_free_t to kmalloc/kzalloc and kfree
- * the amount of memory specified by pool_data
+ * a mempool_alloc_t and a mempool_free_t to kmalloc and kfree the
+ * amount of memory specified by pool_data
  */
 void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
-void *mempool_kzalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
 void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data);
 static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(int min_nr, size_t size)
 {
 	return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_kmalloc, mempool_kfree,
 			      (void *) size);
 }
-static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_kzalloc_pool(int min_nr, size_t size)
-{
-	return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_kzalloc, mempool_kfree,
-			      (void *) size);
-}
 
 /*
  * A mempool_alloc_t and mempool_free_t for a simple page allocator that
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 32e75d4005032620e8f9cb9161a8c66f025470bb..1a3bc3d4d5543d5192848bedda8162933f07ada0 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -308,13 +308,6 @@ void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc);
 
-void *mempool_kzalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
-{
-	size_t size = (size_t)pool_data;
-	return kzalloc(size, gfp_mask);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kzalloc);
-
 void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data)
 {
 	kfree(element);