diff --git a/parser/libapparmor_re/policy_compat.cc b/parser/libapparmor_re/policy_compat.cc
index d72a1a2b3..4f65883b7 100644
--- a/parser/libapparmor_re/policy_compat.cc
+++ b/parser/libapparmor_re/policy_compat.cc
@@ -163,12 +163,6 @@ static uint32_t map_other(uint32_t x)
 		((x & 0x60) << 19);	/* SETOPT/GETOPT */
 }
 
-static uint32_t map_xbits(uint32_t x)
-{
-	return ((x & 0x1) << 7) |
-		((x & 0x7e) << 9);
-}
-
 struct aa_perms compute_perms_entry(uint32_t accept1, uint32_t accept2,
 				    uint32_t accept3)
 // don't need to worry about version internally within the parser