diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 8dfd53b52744a4..4f2e2e5b6ab114 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3085,11 +3085,7 @@ int setattr_should_drop_sgid(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
  * This must be used for allocating filesystems specific inodes to set
  * up the inode reclaim context correctly.
  */
-static inline void *
-alloc_inode_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t gfp)
-{
-	return kmem_cache_alloc_lru(cache, &sb->s_inode_lru, gfp);
-}
+#define alloc_inode_sb(_sb, _cache, _gfp) kmem_cache_alloc_lru(_cache, &_sb->s_inode_lru, _gfp)
 
 extern void __insert_inode_hash(struct inode *, unsigned long hashval);
 static inline void insert_inode_hash(struct inode *inode)