diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/workitem.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/workitem.c
index ba16fd5db704..0a03bf7ba3eb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/workitem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/workitem.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ typedef struct cfs_wi_sched {
 	char			ws_name[CFS_WS_NAME_LEN];
 } cfs_wi_sched_t;
 
-struct cfs_workitem_data {
+static struct cfs_workitem_data {
 	/** serialize */
 	spinlock_t		wi_glock;
 	/** list of all schedulers */