diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/error-injection.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/error-injection.h
index 47b7a1296245..f3f22e237b86 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/error-injection.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/error-injection.h
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_ERROR_INJECTION_H
 #define _ASM_ERROR_INJECTION_H
 
-#include <linux/compiler.h>
-#include <linux/linkage.h>
-#include <asm/ptrace.h>
 #include <asm-generic/error-injection.h>
 
-asmlinkage void just_return_func(void);
-void override_function_with_return(struct pt_regs *regs);
+#define ARCH_FUNC_RET	"ret"
 
 #endif /* _ASM_ERROR_INJECTION_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
index 25a972c61b0a..f23934bbaf4e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ lib-y += memcpy_$(BITS).o
 lib-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM) += rwsem.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_INSTRUCTION_DECODER) += insn.o inat.o insn-eval.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) += kaslr.o
-lib-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION)	+= error-inject.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_RETPOLINE) += retpoline.o
 
 obj-y += msr.o msr-reg.o msr-reg-export.o hweight.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/error-inject.c b/arch/x86/lib/error-inject.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 3cdf06128d13..000000000000
--- a/arch/x86/lib/error-inject.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-#include <linux/error-injection.h>
-#include <linux/kprobes.h>
-
-asmlinkage void just_return_func(void);
-
-asm(
-	".type just_return_func, @function\n"
-	".globl just_return_func\n"
-	"just_return_func:\n"
-	"	ret\n"
-	".size just_return_func, .-just_return_func\n"
-);
-
-void override_function_with_return(struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
-	regs->ip = (unsigned long)&just_return_func;
-}
-NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(override_function_with_return);
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h b/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h
index 296c65442f00..8ac152cc204a 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 #define _ASM_GENERIC_ERROR_INJECTION_H
 
 #if defined(__KERNEL__) && !defined(__ASSEMBLY__)
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+
 enum {
 	EI_ETYPE_NONE,		/* Dummy value for undefined case */
 	EI_ETYPE_NULL,		/* Return NULL if failure */
@@ -27,6 +30,9 @@ static struct error_injection_entry __used				\
 		.addr = (unsigned long)fname,				\
 		.etype = EI_ETYPE_##_etype,				\
 	};
+
+asmlinkage void just_return_func(void);
+
 #else
 #define ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION(fname, _etype)
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/error-injection.h b/include/linux/error-injection.h
index 280c61ecbf20..f4a0b23423d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/error-injection.h
+++ b/include/linux/error-injection.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
 
+#include <linux/types.h>
 #include <asm/error-injection.h>
 
 extern bool within_error_injection_list(unsigned long addr);
diff --git a/kernel/fail_function.c b/kernel/fail_function.c
index 1d5632d8bbcc..0ae2ca4a29e8 100644
--- a/kernel/fail_function.c
+++ b/kernel/fail_function.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int fei_kprobe_handler(struct kprobe *kp, struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	if (should_fail(&fei_fault_attr, 1)) {
 		regs_set_return_value(regs, attr->retval);
-		override_function_with_return(regs);
+		instruction_pointer_set(regs, (unsigned long)&just_return_func);
 		/* Kprobe specific fixup */
 		reset_current_kprobe();
 		preempt_enable_no_resched();
diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index 56ba0f2a01db..23f1f4ffda6c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_call_bpf);
 BPF_CALL_2(bpf_override_return, struct pt_regs *, regs, unsigned long, rc)
 {
 	regs_set_return_value(regs, rc);
-	override_function_with_return(regs);
+	instruction_pointer_set(regs, (unsigned long)&just_return_func);
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/error-inject.c b/lib/error-inject.c
index c0d4600f4896..7fdc92b5babc 100644
--- a/lib/error-inject.c
+++ b/lib/error-inject.c
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ struct ei_entry {
 	void *priv;
 };
 
+asm(
+	".type just_return_func, @function\n"
+	".globl just_return_func\n"
+	"just_return_func:\n"
+	ARCH_FUNC_RET "\n"
+	".size just_return_func, .-just_return_func\n"
+);
+
 bool within_error_injection_list(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	struct ei_entry *ent;
