diff --git a/include/asm-generic/checksum.h b/include/asm-generic/checksum.h
index c084767c88bc..59811df58c5b 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/checksum.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/checksum.h
@@ -38,12 +38,15 @@ extern __wsum csum_partial_copy_from_user(const void __user *src, void *dst,
 	csum_partial_copy((src), (dst), (len), (sum))
 #endif
 
+#ifndef ip_fast_csum
 /*
  * This is a version of ip_compute_csum() optimized for IP headers,
  * which always checksum on 4 octet boundaries.
  */
 extern __sum16 ip_fast_csum(const void *iph, unsigned int ihl);
+#endif
 
+#ifndef csum_fold
 /*
  * Fold a partial checksum
  */
@@ -54,6 +57,7 @@ static inline __sum16 csum_fold(__wsum csum)
 	sum = (sum & 0xffff) + (sum >> 16);
 	return (__force __sum16)~sum;
 }
+#endif
 
 #ifndef csum_tcpudp_nofold
 /*
diff --git a/lib/checksum.c b/lib/checksum.c
index 12dceb27ff20..129775eb6de6 100644
--- a/lib/checksum.c
+++ b/lib/checksum.c
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ out:
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifndef ip_fast_csum
 /*
  *	This is a version of ip_compute_csum() optimized for IP headers,
  *	which always checksum on 4 octet boundaries.
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ __sum16 ip_fast_csum(const void *iph, unsigned int ihl)
 	return (__force __sum16)~do_csum(iph, ihl*4);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_fast_csum);
+#endif
 
 /*
  * computes the checksum of a memory block at buff, length len,