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diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 3a8c9d744800..dd8d9ab747c3 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1073,31 +1073,6 @@ int audit_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk)
return 0;
}
-/**
- * audit_alloc_kernel - allocate an audit_context for a kernel task
- * @tsk: the kernel task
- *
- * Similar to the audit_alloc() function, but intended for kernel private
- * threads. Returns zero on success, negative values on failure.
- */
-int audit_alloc_kernel(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
- /*
- * At the moment we are just going to call into audit_alloc() to
- * simplify the code, but there two things to keep in mind with this
- * approach:
- *
- * 1. Filtering internal kernel tasks is a bit laughable in almost all
- * cases, but there is at least one case where there is a benefit:
- * the '-a task,never' case allows the admin to effectively disable
- * task auditing at runtime.
- *
- * 2. The {set,clear}_task_syscall_work() ops likely have zero effect
- * on these internal kernel tasks, but they probably don't hurt either.
- */
- return audit_alloc(tsk);
-}
-
static inline void audit_free_context(struct audit_context *context)
{
/* resetting is extra work, but it is likely just noise */