diff --git a/fs/lockd/svcsubs.c b/fs/lockd/svcsubs.c
index 665ef5a05183..a563ddbc19e6 100644
--- a/fs/lockd/svcsubs.c
+++ b/fs/lockd/svcsubs.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 static struct hlist_head	nlm_files[FILE_NRHASH];
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(nlm_file_mutex);
 
-#ifdef NFSD_DEBUG
+#ifdef CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG
 static inline void nlm_debug_print_fh(char *msg, struct nfs_fh *f)
 {
 	u32 *fhp = (u32*)f->data;
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index fd875b6107ba..693495551bb2 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ hash_sessionid(struct nfs4_sessionid *sessionid)
 	return sid->sequence % SESSION_HASH_SIZE;
 }
 
-#ifdef NFSD_DEBUG
+#ifdef CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG
 static inline void
 dump_sessionid(const char *fn, struct nfs4_sessionid *sessionid)
 {
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsd.h b/fs/nfsd/nfsd.h
index 565c4da1a9eb..cf980523898b 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsd.h
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsd.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #include "export.h"
 
 #undef ifdebug
-#ifdef NFSD_DEBUG
+#ifdef CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG
 # define ifdebug(flag)		if (nfsd_debug & NFSDDBG_##flag)
 #else
 # define ifdebug(flag)		if (0)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/debug.h b/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/debug.h
index 0bf130a1c58d..28ec6c9c421a 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/debug.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/debug.h
@@ -11,14 +11,6 @@
 
 #include <linux/sunrpc/debug.h>
 
-/*
- * Enable debugging for nfsd.
- * Requires RPC_DEBUG.
- */
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG)
-# define NFSD_DEBUG		1
-#endif
-
 /*
  * knfsd debug flags
  */