diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index f0d9a485d095..61d24f6ee64e 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -2486,6 +2486,7 @@ querySymLinkRetry:
 	return rc;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
 /* Initialize NT TRANSACT SMB into small smb request buffer.
    This assumes that all NT TRANSACTS that we init here have
    total parm and data under about 400 bytes (to fit in small cifs
@@ -2569,6 +2570,7 @@ validate_ntransact(char *buf, char **ppparm, char **ppdata,
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
+#endif /* CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
 
 int
 CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,