diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
index 00afedc..307a3ec 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ size_t		rpc_max_payload(struct rpc_clnt *);
 void		rpc_force_rebind(struct rpc_clnt *);
 size_t		rpc_peeraddr(struct rpc_clnt *, struct sockaddr *, size_t);
 const char	*rpc_peeraddr2str(struct rpc_clnt *, enum rpc_display_format_t);
-
 size_t		rpc_ntop(const struct sockaddr *, char *, const size_t);
 size_t		rpc_pton(const char *, const size_t,
 			 struct sockaddr *, const size_t);
@@ -197,6 +196,18 @@ static inline void rpc_set_port(struct sockaddr *sap,
 	}
 }
 
+static inline void
+rpc_xdr_buf_init(struct xdr_buf *buf, void *start, size_t len)
+{
+	buf->head[0].iov_base = start;
+	buf->head[0].iov_len = len;
+	buf->tail[0].iov_len = 0;
+	buf->page_len = 0;
+	buf->flags = 0;
+	buf->len = 0;
+	buf->buflen = len;
+}
+
 #define IPV6_SCOPE_DELIMITER		'%'
 #define IPV6_SCOPE_ID_LEN		sizeof("%nnnnnnnnnn")
 
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index f05d289..42688af 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -966,18 +966,6 @@ rpc_task_force_reencode(struct rpc_task *task)
 	task->tk_rqstp->rq_bytes_sent = 0;
 }
 
-static inline void
-rpc_xdr_buf_init(struct xdr_buf *buf, void *start, size_t len)
-{
-	buf->head[0].iov_base = start;
-	buf->head[0].iov_len = len;
-	buf->tail[0].iov_len = 0;
-	buf->page_len = 0;
-	buf->flags = 0;
-	buf->len = 0;
-	buf->buflen = len;
-}
-
 /*
  * 3.	Encode arguments of an RPC call
  */