diff --git a/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst b/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst
index f9bf18ea6509..90b733422ed4 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst
+++ b/Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst
@@ -270,8 +270,7 @@ Request queue based layered devices like dm-rq that wish to support inline
 encryption need to create their own blk_crypto_profile for their request_queue,
 and expose whatever functionality they choose. When a layered device wants to
 pass a clone of that request to another request_queue, blk-crypto will
-initialize and prepare the clone as necessary; see
-``blk_crypto_insert_cloned_request()``.
+initialize and prepare the clone as necessary.
 
 Interaction between inline encryption and blk integrity
 =======================================================
diff --git a/block/blk-crypto-internal.h b/block/blk-crypto-internal.h
index 4f1de2495f0c..93a141979694 100644
--- a/block/blk-crypto-internal.h
+++ b/block/blk-crypto-internal.h
@@ -205,21 +205,6 @@ static inline int blk_crypto_rq_bio_prep(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/**
- * blk_crypto_insert_cloned_request - Prepare a cloned request to be inserted
- *				      into a request queue.
- * @rq: the request being queued
- *
- * Return: BLK_STS_OK on success, nonzero on error.
- */
-static inline blk_status_t blk_crypto_insert_cloned_request(struct request *rq)
-{
-
-	if (blk_crypto_rq_is_encrypted(rq))
-		return blk_crypto_rq_get_keyslot(rq);
-	return BLK_STS_OK;
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK
 
 int blk_crypto_fallback_start_using_mode(enum blk_crypto_mode_num mode_num);
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 49825538d932..5e819de2f5e7 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -3049,7 +3049,7 @@ blk_status_t blk_insert_cloned_request(struct request *rq)
 	if (q->disk && should_fail_request(q->disk->part0, blk_rq_bytes(rq)))
 		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
 
-	if (blk_crypto_insert_cloned_request(rq))
+	if (blk_crypto_rq_get_keyslot(rq))
 		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
 
 	blk_account_io_start(rq);