diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 6aeae7ef33803..728f8d70d7f1d 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ extern void __init chrdev_init(void);
  */
 extern const struct fs_context_operations legacy_fs_context_ops;
 extern int parse_monolithic_mount_data(struct fs_context *, void *);
-extern void fc_drop_locked(struct fs_context *);
 extern void vfs_clean_context(struct fs_context *fc);
 extern int finish_clean_context(struct fs_context *fc);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fs_context.h b/include/linux/fs_context.h
index 37e1e8f7f08da..5b44b0195a28a 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs_context.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs_context.h
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ extern int vfs_parse_fs_string(struct fs_context *fc, const char *key,
 extern int generic_parse_monolithic(struct fs_context *fc, void *data);
 extern int vfs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc);
 extern void put_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc);
+extern void fc_drop_locked(struct fs_context *fc);
 
 /*
  * sget() wrappers to be called from the ->get_tree() op.
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
index d189eff4c92ff..583790d2060ce 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -1225,9 +1225,7 @@ int cgroup1_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
 		ret = cgroup_do_get_tree(fc);
 
 	if (!ret && percpu_ref_is_dying(&ctx->root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
-		struct super_block *sb = fc->root->d_sb;
-		dput(fc->root);
-		deactivate_locked_super(sb);
+		fc_drop_locked(fc);
 		ret = 1;
 	}