diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
index b4fa3b0..1f6a895 100644
--- a/fs/attr.c
+++ b/fs/attr.c
@@ -105,13 +105,13 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_newsize_ok);
 
 /**
- * generic_setattr - copy simple metadata updates into the generic inode
+ * setattr_copy - copy simple metadata updates into the generic inode
  * @inode:	the inode to be updated
  * @attr:	the new attributes
  *
- * generic_setattr must be called with i_mutex held.
+ * setattr_copy must be called with i_mutex held.
  *
- * generic_setattr updates the inode's metadata with that specified
+ * setattr_copy updates the inode's metadata with that specified
  * in attr. Noticably missing is inode size update, which is more complex
  * as it requires pagecache updates. See simple_setsize.
  *
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
  * that for "simple" filesystems, the struct inode is the inode storage.
  * The caller is free to mark the inode dirty afterwards if needed.
  */
-void generic_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
+void setattr_copy(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
 {
 	unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
 
@@ -144,11 +144,11 @@
 		inode->i_mode = mode;
 	}
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_setattr);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(setattr_copy);
 
 /*
  * note this function is deprecated, the new truncate sequence should be
- * used instead -- see eg. simple_setsize, generic_setattr.
+ * used instead -- see eg. simple_setsize, setattr_copy.
  */
 int inode_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
 {
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
 			return error;
 	}
 
-	generic_setattr(inode, attr);
+	setattr_copy(inode, attr);
 
 	mark_inode_dirty(inode);
 
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 74dfe5f..7dee7b3 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@
 		if (error)
 			return error;
 	}
-	generic_setattr(inode, iattr);
+	setattr_copy(inode, iattr);
 	if (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)
 		error = ext2_acl_chmod(inode);
 	mark_inode_dirty(inode);
diff --git a/fs/fat/file.c b/fs/fat/file.c
index 990dfae..20813d2 100644
--- a/fs/fat/file.c
+++ b/fs/fat/file.c
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
 			goto out;
 	}
 
-	generic_setattr(inode, attr);
+	setattr_copy(inode, attr);
 	mark_inode_dirty(inode);
 out:
 	return error;
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index dcaf972..861a887 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -395,8 +395,7 @@
 			return error;
 	}
 
-	generic_setattr(inode, iattr);
-
+	setattr_copy(inode, iattr);
 	return error;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_setattr);
diff --git a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
index d532c20..8d44f03 100644
--- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-	generic_setattr(inode, ia);
+	setattr_copy(inode, ia);
  out:
 	ia->ia_valid = old_ia_valid;
 	return ret;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 0835a3b..7e187fb 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 		goto out;
 
 	/* this ignores size changes */
-	generic_setattr(inode, iattr);
+	setattr_copy(inode, iattr);
 
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b347b2d..8ebb5f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2393,7 +2393,7 @@
 extern int inode_change_ok(const struct inode *, struct iattr *);
 extern int inode_newsize_ok(const struct inode *, loff_t offset);
 extern int __must_check inode_setattr(struct inode *, const struct iattr *);
-extern void generic_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr);
+extern void setattr_copy(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr);
 
 extern void file_update_time(struct file *file);
 
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index f65f840..3b58ad6 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@
 
 	error = inode_change_ok(inode, attr);
 	if (!error)
-		generic_setattr(inode, attr);
+		setattr_copy(inode, attr);
 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
 	if (!error && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
 		error = generic_acl_chmod(inode);