diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index 87c5a6d00805..2613fca92740 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -2047,13 +2047,7 @@ static int __init journal_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
 
-/* Static check for data structure consistency.  There's no code
- * invoked --- we'll just get a linker failure if things aren't right.
- */
-	extern void journal_bad_superblock_size(void);
-	if (sizeof(struct journal_superblock_s) != 1024)
-		journal_bad_superblock_size();
-
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct journal_superblock_s) != 1024);
 
 	ret = journal_init_caches();
 	if (ret != 0)