diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 249a517591b8..13932abde159 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2368,7 +2368,7 @@ static int cgroup_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
 	return cgroup_create(c_parent, dentry, mode | S_IFDIR);
 }
 
-static inline int cgroup_has_css_refs(struct cgroup *cgrp)
+static int cgroup_has_css_refs(struct cgroup *cgrp)
 {
 	/* Check the reference count on each subsystem. Since we
 	 * already established that there are no tasks in the