diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index ddd64b8ebf05..2c138309ad66 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -1202,13 +1202,13 @@ static int seq_ns_name_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 
 static int seq_ns_compress_min_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 {
-	seq_printf(seq, "%d\n", zstd_min_clevel());
+	seq_printf(seq, "%d\n", AA_MIN_CLEVEL);
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static int seq_ns_compress_max_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 {
-	seq_printf(seq, "%d\n", zstd_max_clevel());
+	seq_printf(seq, "%d\n", AA_MAX_CLEVEL);
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h b/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
index 6d9ca075fcb9..8a81557c9d59 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
@@ -51,4 +51,15 @@ extern bool aa_g_logsyscall;
 extern bool aa_g_paranoid_load;
 extern unsigned int aa_g_path_max;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_EXPORT_BINARY
+#define AA_MIN_CLEVEL zstd_min_clevel()
+#define AA_MAX_CLEVEL zstd_max_clevel()
+#define AA_DEFAULT_CLEVEL ZSTD_CLEVEL_DEFAULT
+#else
+#define AA_MIN_CLEVEL 0
+#define AA_MAX_CLEVEL 0
+#define AA_DEFAULT_CLEVEL 0
+#endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_EXPORT_BINARY */
+
+
 #endif /* __APPARMOR_H */
diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
index a22e53e44123..8e2b951c4988 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
@@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ module_param_named(export_binary, aa_g_export_binary, aabool, 0600);
 #endif
 
 /* policy loaddata compression level */
-int aa_g_rawdata_compression_level = ZSTD_CLEVEL_DEFAULT;
+int aa_g_rawdata_compression_level = AA_DEFAULT_CLEVEL;
 module_param_named(rawdata_compression_level, aa_g_rawdata_compression_level,
 		   aacompressionlevel, 0400);
 
@@ -1547,8 +1547,7 @@ static int param_set_aacompressionlevel(const char *val,
 	error = param_set_int(val, kp);
 
 	aa_g_rawdata_compression_level = clamp(aa_g_rawdata_compression_level,
-					       zstd_min_clevel(),
-					       zstd_max_clevel());
+					       AA_MIN_CLEVEL, AA_MAX_CLEVEL);
 	pr_info("AppArmor: policy rawdata compression level set to %d\n",
 		aa_g_rawdata_compression_level);