diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h
index 644dd882a5604c5ed6f900aad2a47478bc31b49a..6d02fd560566b8184f004f9087dd7ea48ef590d7 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ int cifs_strtoUCS(__le16 *, const char *, int, const struct nls_table *);
 char *cifs_strndup_from_ucs(const char *src, const int maxlen,
 			    const bool is_unicode,
 			    const struct nls_table *codepage);
+extern int cifsConvertToUCS(__le16 *target, const char *source, int maxlen,
+			const struct nls_table *cp, int mapChars);
+
 #endif
 
 /*
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
index a1c94d396afe96936026cf3617a1245db069d8e1..6e69e06a30b3334687cf07034044a01c6b0beaed 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
@@ -353,8 +353,6 @@ extern int CIFSGetSrvInodeNumber(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 			const unsigned char *searchName, __u64 *inode_number,
 			const struct nls_table *nls_codepage,
 			int remap_special_chars);
-extern int cifsConvertToUCS(__le16 *target, const char *source, int maxlen,
-			const struct nls_table *cp, int mapChars);
 
 extern int CIFSSMBLock(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 			const __u16 netfid, const __u64 len,