diff --git a/fs/cifs/misc.c b/fs/cifs/misc.c
index e2552d2..557506a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@ -212,93 +212,6 @@
 	return;
 }
 
-/*
- * Find a free multiplex id (SMB mid). Otherwise there could be
- * mid collisions which might cause problems, demultiplexing the
- * wrong response to this request. Multiplex ids could collide if
- * one of a series requests takes much longer than the others, or
- * if a very large number of long lived requests (byte range
- * locks or FindNotify requests) are pending. No more than
- * 64K-1 requests can be outstanding at one time. If no
- * mids are available, return zero. A future optimization
- * could make the combination of mids and uid the key we use
- * to demultiplex on (rather than mid alone).
- * In addition to the above check, the cifs demultiplex
- * code already used the command code as a secondary
- * check of the frame and if signing is negotiated the
- * response would be discarded if the mid were the same
- * but the signature was wrong. Since the mid is not put in the
- * pending queue until later (when it is about to be dispatched)
- * we do have to limit the number of outstanding requests
- * to somewhat less than 64K-1 although it is hard to imagine
- * so many threads being in the vfs at one time.
- */
-__u64 GetNextMid(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
-{
-	__u64 mid = 0;
-	__u16 last_mid, cur_mid;
-	bool collision;
-
-	spin_lock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
-
-	/* mid is 16 bit only for CIFS/SMB */
-	cur_mid = (__u16)((server->CurrentMid) & 0xffff);
-	/* we do not want to loop forever */
-	last_mid = cur_mid;
-	cur_mid++;
-
-	/*
-	 * This nested loop looks more expensive than it is.
-	 * In practice the list of pending requests is short,
-	 * fewer than 50, and the mids are likely to be unique
-	 * on the first pass through the loop unless some request
-	 * takes longer than the 64 thousand requests before it
-	 * (and it would also have to have been a request that
-	 * did not time out).
-	 */
-	while (cur_mid != last_mid) {
-		struct mid_q_entry *mid_entry;
-		unsigned int num_mids;
-
-		collision = false;
-		if (cur_mid == 0)
-			cur_mid++;
-
-		num_mids = 0;
-		list_for_each_entry(mid_entry, &server->pending_mid_q, qhead) {
-			++num_mids;
-			if (mid_entry->mid == cur_mid &&
-			    mid_entry->mid_state == MID_REQUEST_SUBMITTED) {
-				/* This mid is in use, try a different one */
-				collision = true;
-				break;
-			}
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * if we have more than 32k mids in the list, then something
-		 * is very wrong. Possibly a local user is trying to DoS the
-		 * box by issuing long-running calls and SIGKILL'ing them. If
-		 * we get to 2^16 mids then we're in big trouble as this
-		 * function could loop forever.
-		 *
-		 * Go ahead and assign out the mid in this situation, but force
-		 * an eventual reconnect to clean out the pending_mid_q.
-		 */
-		if (num_mids > 32768)
-			server->tcpStatus = CifsNeedReconnect;
-
-		if (!collision) {
-			mid = (__u64)cur_mid;
-			server->CurrentMid = mid;
-			break;
-		}
-		cur_mid++;
-	}
-	spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
-	return mid;
-}
-
 /* NB: MID can not be set if treeCon not passed in, in that
    case it is responsbility of caller to set the mid */
 void
@@ -334,7 +247,7 @@
 
 			/* Uid is not converted */
 			buffer->Uid = treeCon->ses->Suid;
-			buffer->Mid = GetNextMid(treeCon->ses->server);
+			buffer->Mid = get_next_mid(treeCon->ses->server);
 		}
 		if (treeCon->Flags & SMB_SHARE_IS_IN_DFS)
 			buffer->Flags2 |= SMBFLG2_DFS;