diff --git a/fs/ceph/locks.c b/fs/ceph/locks.c
index e9960c8..bb5fb3d 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/locks.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/locks.c
@@ -191,29 +191,23 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * Encode the flock and fcntl locks for the given inode into the pagelist.
- * Format is: #fcntl locks, sequential fcntl locks, #flock locks,
- * sequential flock locks.
- * Must be called with lock_flocks() already held.
- * If we encounter more of a specific lock type than expected,
- * we return the value 1.
+ * Encode the flock and fcntl locks for the given inode into the ceph_filelock
+ * array. Must be called with lock_flocks() already held.
+ * If we encounter more of a specific lock type than expected, return -ENOSPC.
  */
-int ceph_encode_locks(struct inode *inode, struct ceph_pagelist *pagelist,
-		      int num_fcntl_locks, int num_flock_locks)
+int ceph_encode_locks_to_buffer(struct inode *inode,
+				struct ceph_filelock *flocks,
+				int num_fcntl_locks, int num_flock_locks)
 {
 	struct file_lock *lock;
-	struct ceph_filelock cephlock;
 	int err = 0;
 	int seen_fcntl = 0;
 	int seen_flock = 0;
-	__le32 nlocks;
+	int l = 0;
 
 	dout("encoding %d flock and %d fcntl locks", num_flock_locks,
 	     num_fcntl_locks);
-	nlocks = cpu_to_le32(num_fcntl_locks);
-	err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist, &nlocks, sizeof(nlocks));
-	if (err)
-		goto fail;
+
 	for (lock = inode->i_flock; lock != NULL; lock = lock->fl_next) {
 		if (lock->fl_flags & FL_POSIX) {
 			++seen_fcntl;
@@ -221,20 +215,12 @@
 				err = -ENOSPC;
 				goto fail;
 			}
-			err = lock_to_ceph_filelock(lock, &cephlock);
+			err = lock_to_ceph_filelock(lock, &flocks[l]);
 			if (err)
 				goto fail;
-			err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist, &cephlock,
-					   sizeof(struct ceph_filelock));
+			++l;
 		}
-		if (err)
-			goto fail;
 	}
-
-	nlocks = cpu_to_le32(num_flock_locks);
-	err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist, &nlocks, sizeof(nlocks));
-	if (err)
-		goto fail;
 	for (lock = inode->i_flock; lock != NULL; lock = lock->fl_next) {
 		if (lock->fl_flags & FL_FLOCK) {
 			++seen_flock;
@@ -242,19 +228,51 @@
 				err = -ENOSPC;
 				goto fail;
 			}
-			err = lock_to_ceph_filelock(lock, &cephlock);
+			err = lock_to_ceph_filelock(lock, &flocks[l]);
 			if (err)
 				goto fail;
-			err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist, &cephlock,
-					   sizeof(struct ceph_filelock));
+			++l;
 		}
-		if (err)
-			goto fail;
 	}
 fail:
 	return err;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Copy the encoded flock and fcntl locks into the pagelist.
+ * Format is: #fcntl locks, sequential fcntl locks, #flock locks,
+ * sequential flock locks.
+ * Returns zero on success.
+ */
+int ceph_locks_to_pagelist(struct ceph_filelock *flocks,
+			   struct ceph_pagelist *pagelist,
+			   int num_fcntl_locks, int num_flock_locks)
+{
+	int err = 0;
+	__le32 nlocks;
+
+	nlocks = cpu_to_le32(num_fcntl_locks);
+	err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist, &nlocks, sizeof(nlocks));
+	if (err)
+		goto out_fail;
+
+	err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist, flocks,
+				   num_fcntl_locks * sizeof(*flocks));
+	if (err)
+		goto out_fail;
+
+	nlocks = cpu_to_le32(num_flock_locks);
+	err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist, &nlocks, sizeof(nlocks));
+	if (err)
+		goto out_fail;
+
+	err = ceph_pagelist_append(pagelist,
+				   &flocks[num_fcntl_locks],
+				   num_flock_locks * sizeof(*flocks));
+out_fail:
+	return err;
+}
+
 /*
  * Given a pointer to a lock, convert it to a ceph filelock
  */