diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 0421998..e007fec 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@
  * inode allocation from the current group, so we take alloc_sem lock, to
  * block ext4_claim_inode until we are finished.
  */
-extern int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
+int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 				 int barrier)
 {
 	struct ext4_group_info *grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group);