diff --git a/exfat_fs.h b/exfat_fs.h
index c40182885bd9..ca683ab1de47 100644
--- a/exfat_fs.h
+++ b/exfat_fs.h
@@ -499,8 +499,6 @@ int exfat_nls_to_utf16(struct super_block *sb,
 		struct exfat_uni_name *uniname, int *p_lossy);
 int exfat_create_upcase_table(struct super_block *sb);
 void exfat_free_upcase_table(struct exfat_sb_info *sbi);
-unsigned short exfat_high_surrogate(unicode_t u);
-unsigned short exfat_low_surrogate(unicode_t u);
 
 /* exfat/misc.c */
 void __exfat_fs_error(struct super_block *sb, int report, const char *fmt, ...)
diff --git a/nls.c b/nls.c
index 2178786b708b..1ebda90cbdd7 100644
--- a/nls.c
+++ b/nls.c
@@ -535,22 +535,9 @@ static int exfat_utf8_to_utf16(struct super_block *sb,
 	return unilen;
 }
 
-#define PLANE_SIZE	0x00010000
 #define SURROGATE_MASK	0xfffff800
 #define SURROGATE_PAIR	0x0000d800
 #define SURROGATE_LOW	0x00000400
-#define SURROGATE_BITS	0x000003ff
-
-unsigned short exfat_high_surrogate(unicode_t u)
-{
-	return ((u - PLANE_SIZE) >> 10) + SURROGATE_PAIR;
-}
-
-unsigned short exfat_low_surrogate(unicode_t u)
-{
-	return ((u - PLANE_SIZE) & SURROGATE_BITS) | SURROGATE_PAIR |
-		SURROGATE_LOW;
-}
 
 static int __exfat_utf16_to_nls(struct super_block *sb,
 		struct exfat_uni_name *p_uniname, unsigned char *p_cstring,