diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index dccdcec913e9..153dee14fe55 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1926,19 +1926,9 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, struct core_state *core_state)
 		core_waiters = zap_threads(tsk, mm, core_state, exit_code);
 	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
-	if (unlikely(core_waiters < 0))
-		goto fail;
-
-	/*
-	 * Make sure nobody is waiting for us to release the VM,
-	 * otherwise we can deadlock when we wait on each other
-	 */
-	if (tsk->vfork_done)
-		complete_vfork_done(tsk);
-
-	if (core_waiters)
+	if (core_waiters > 0)
 		wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
-fail:
+
 	return core_waiters;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b6467711f12e..11fcafaf4ae4 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2291,7 +2291,6 @@ extern int do_execve(const char *,
 		     const char __user * const __user *,
 		     const char __user * const __user *, struct pt_regs *);
 extern long do_fork(unsigned long, unsigned long, struct pt_regs *, unsigned long, int __user *, int __user *);
-extern void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk);
 struct task_struct *fork_idle(int);
 
 extern void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *from);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 892c534ce6e3..44b0e21af50e 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 	return mm;
 }
 
-void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	struct completion *vfork;