diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
index 21be186067a2..83a6d3c7f872 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ xfs_attr_rmtval_remove(
 		/*
 		 * If the "remote" value is in the cache, remove it.
 		 */
-		bp = xfs_incore(mp->m_ddev_targp, dblkno, dblkcnt, XBF_TRYLOCK);
+		bp = xfs_buf_incore(mp->m_ddev_targp, dblkno, dblkcnt, XBF_TRYLOCK);
 		if (bp) {
 			xfs_buf_stale(bp);
 			xfs_buf_relse(bp);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index 55661cbdb51b..349d42fde1d7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -549,17 +549,17 @@ xfs_buf_hash_destroy(
 }
 
 /*
- *	Look up, and creates if absent, a lockable buffer for
- *	a given range of an inode.  The buffer is returned
- *	locked.	No I/O is implied by this call.
+ * Look up (and insert if absent), a lockable buffer for a given
+ * range of an inode.  The buffer is returned locked. No I/O is
+ * implied by this call.
  */
-xfs_buf_t *
+static struct xfs_buf *
 _xfs_buf_find(
 	struct xfs_buftarg	*btp,
 	struct xfs_buf_map	*map,
 	int			nmaps,
 	xfs_buf_flags_t		flags,
-	xfs_buf_t		*new_bp)
+	struct xfs_buf		*new_bp)
 {
 	struct xfs_perag	*pag;
 	xfs_buf_t		*bp;
@@ -649,6 +649,17 @@ found:
 	return bp;
 }
 
+struct xfs_buf *
+xfs_buf_incore(
+	struct xfs_buftarg	*target,
+	xfs_daddr_t		blkno,
+	size_t			numblks,
+	xfs_buf_flags_t		flags)
+{
+	DEFINE_SINGLE_BUF_MAP(map, blkno, numblks);
+	return _xfs_buf_find(target, &map, 1, flags, NULL);
+}
+
 /*
  * Assembles a buffer covering the specified range. The code is optimised for
  * cache hits, as metadata intensive workloads will see 3 orders of magnitude
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
index edced162a674..830e2f6c064a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
@@ -218,20 +218,9 @@ typedef struct xfs_buf {
 } xfs_buf_t;
 
 /* Finding and Reading Buffers */
-struct xfs_buf *_xfs_buf_find(struct xfs_buftarg *target,
-			      struct xfs_buf_map *map, int nmaps,
-			      xfs_buf_flags_t flags, struct xfs_buf *new_bp);
-
-static inline struct xfs_buf *
-xfs_incore(
-	struct xfs_buftarg	*target,
-	xfs_daddr_t		blkno,
-	size_t			numblks,
-	xfs_buf_flags_t		flags)
-{
-	DEFINE_SINGLE_BUF_MAP(map, blkno, numblks);
-	return _xfs_buf_find(target, &map, 1, flags, NULL);
-}
+struct xfs_buf *xfs_buf_incore(struct xfs_buftarg *target,
+			   xfs_daddr_t blkno, size_t numblks,
+			   xfs_buf_flags_t flags);
 
 struct xfs_buf *_xfs_buf_alloc(struct xfs_buftarg *target,
 			       struct xfs_buf_map *map, int nmaps,
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
index ec39ae274c78..afb991283b12 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
@@ -1247,9 +1247,8 @@ xfs_qm_flush_one(
 	 */
 	if (!xfs_dqflock_nowait(dqp)) {
 		/* buf is pinned in-core by delwri list */
-		DEFINE_SINGLE_BUF_MAP(map, dqp->q_blkno,
-				      mp->m_quotainfo->qi_dqchunklen);
-		bp = _xfs_buf_find(mp->m_ddev_targp, &map, 1, 0, NULL);
+		bp = xfs_buf_incore(mp->m_ddev_targp, dqp->q_blkno,
+				mp->m_quotainfo->qi_dqchunklen, 0);
 		if (!bp) {
 			error = -EINVAL;
 			goto out_unlock;