diff --git a/include/vlc_fs.h b/include/vlc_fs.h
index 42d5b9b9c5..aedd0ee736 100644
--- a/include/vlc_fs.h
+++ b/include/vlc_fs.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int vlc_rename( const char *, const char * );
 #endif
 
 VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_stat, ( const char *filename, struct stat *buf ) );
-VLC_EXPORT( int, utf8_lstat, ( const char *filename, struct stat *buf ) );
+VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_lstat, ( const char *filename, struct stat *buf ) );
 
 VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_mkstemp, ( char * ) );
 
diff --git a/modules/misc/gnutls.c b/modules/misc/gnutls.c
index 50ae2d4997..10671c340b 100644
--- a/modules/misc/gnutls.c
+++ b/modules/misc/gnutls.c
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ gnutls_Addx509Directory( vlc_object_t *p_this,
          * that the inode is still the same, to avoid TOCTOU race condition.
          */
         if( ( fd == -1)
-         || fstat( fd, &st1 ) || utf8_lstat( psz_dirname, &st2 )
+         || fstat( fd, &st1 ) || vlc_lstat( psz_dirname, &st2 )
          || S_ISLNK( st2.st_mode ) || ( st1.st_ino != st2.st_ino ) )
         {
             closedir( dir );
diff --git a/src/libvlccore.sym b/src/libvlccore.sym
index 85da6f3eb3..6ed173227e 100644
--- a/src/libvlccore.sym
+++ b/src/libvlccore.sym
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ us_strtof
 vlc_fopen
 utf8_fprintf
 vlc_loaddir
-utf8_lstat
+vlc_lstat
 vlc_mkdir
 vlc_mkstemp
 vlc_open
diff --git a/src/text/filesystem.c b/src/text/filesystem.c
index b514da7a24..b57a27d868 100644
--- a/src/text/filesystem.c
+++ b/src/text/filesystem.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ int vlc_stat( const char *filename, struct stat *buf)
  *
  * @param filename UTF-8 file path
  */
-int utf8_lstat( const char *filename, struct stat *buf)
+int vlc_lstat( const char *filename, struct stat *buf)
 {
     return vlc_statEx( filename, buf, false );
 }