diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 8224e96b5808..a0cd79646c1b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@ int nfs_sync_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int nfs_attribute_timeout(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
+
+	return !time_in_range_open(jiffies, nfsi->read_cache_jiffies, nfsi->read_cache_jiffies + nfsi->attrtimeo);
+}
+
 static bool nfs_check_cache_invalid_delegated(struct inode *inode, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	unsigned long cache_validity = READ_ONCE(NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity);
@@ -1076,13 +1083,6 @@ out:
 	return status;
 }
 
-int nfs_attribute_timeout(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
-
-	return !time_in_range_open(jiffies, nfsi->read_cache_jiffies, nfsi->read_cache_jiffies + nfsi->attrtimeo);
-}
-
 int nfs_attribute_cache_expired(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	if (nfs_have_delegated_attributes(inode))
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index fe2e7810ae80..f1da8c8dd473 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -340,7 +340,6 @@ extern void nfs_access_add_cache(struct inode *, struct nfs_access_entry *);
 extern void nfs_access_set_mask(struct nfs_access_entry *, u32);
 extern int nfs_permission(struct inode *, int);
 extern int nfs_open(struct inode *, struct file *);
-extern int nfs_attribute_timeout(struct inode *inode);
 extern int nfs_attribute_cache_expired(struct inode *inode);
 extern int nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode);
 extern int __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *, struct inode *);