1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3bdb29615a9d..b9fdda8c0930 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@
  * any extra contention...
  */
 
+static int fastcall link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd);
+
 /* In order to reduce some races, while at the same time doing additional
  * checking and hopefully speeding things up, we copy filenames to the
  * kernel data space before using them..
@@ -998,7 +1000,7 @@ return_err:
  * Retry the whole path once, forcing real lookup requests
  * instead of relying on the dcache.
  */
-int fastcall link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
+static int fastcall link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
         struct nameidata save = *nd;
         int result;