diff --git a/include/linux/ceph/decode.h b/include/linux/ceph/decode.h
index 19e9932f3e771..e83f3c81ef433 100644
--- a/include/linux/ceph/decode.h
+++ b/include/linux/ceph/decode.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
diff --git a/include/linux/ceph/msgpool.h b/include/linux/ceph/msgpool.h
index 4b0d38960726d..ddd0d48d03844 100644
--- a/include/linux/ceph/msgpool.h
+++ b/include/linux/ceph/msgpool.h
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 #define _FS_CEPH_MSGPOOL
 
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
-#include <linux/ceph/messenger.h>
 
 /*
  * we use memory pools for preallocating messages we may receive, to
diff --git a/include/linux/ceph/osd_client.h b/include/linux/ceph/osd_client.h
index 1b3b6e1553923..858932304260e 100644
--- a/include/linux/ceph/osd_client.h
+++ b/include/linux/ceph/osd_client.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <linux/ceph/types.h>
 #include <linux/ceph/osdmap.h>
 #include <linux/ceph/messenger.h>
+#include <linux/ceph/msgpool.h>
 #include <linux/ceph/auth.h>
 #include <linux/ceph/pagelist.h>
 
diff --git a/net/ceph/msgpool.c b/net/ceph/msgpool.c
index ddec1c10ac80f..aaed59a47b1dc 100644
--- a/net/ceph/msgpool.c
+++ b/net/ceph/msgpool.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
+#include <linux/ceph/messenger.h>
 #include <linux/ceph/msgpool.h>
 
 static void *msgpool_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *arg)