diff -urN linux-2.4.3-XFS.orig/fs/pagebuf/page_buf.c linux-2.4.3-XFS/fs/pagebuf/page_buf.c
--- linux-2.4.3-XFS.orig/fs/pagebuf/page_buf.c	Sat Apr  7 11:34:41 2001
+++ linux-2.4.3-XFS/fs/pagebuf/page_buf.c	Sun Apr  8 08:49:15 2001
@@ -1934,7 +1934,12 @@
 				/* Success case - we are done */
 				buffer_offset += kb->length;
 				buffer_len -= kb->length;
-				goto out;
+        			pagebuf_rele(pb);
+
+        			if (!status)
+                			status = total;
+
+        			return (status);
 			} else {
 				/* Failure, either try again, or fall back
 				 * to the buffer head path.
@@ -1971,7 +1976,12 @@
 
 		if (sval <= 0) {
 			status = sval;
-			goto out;
+			pagebuf_rele(pb);
+
+			if (!status)
+				status = total;
+
+			return (status);
 		} else {
 			len = sval;
 			total += len;
@@ -1980,14 +1990,6 @@
 		buffer_offset += len;
 		buffer_len -= len;
 	}
-
-out:
-	pagebuf_rele(pb);
-
-	if (!status)
-		status = total;
-
-	return (status);
 }
 
 /*