diff --git a/fs/ceph/addr.c b/fs/ceph/addr.c
index 9efd51926792..7ab616601141 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/addr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c
@@ -684,23 +684,6 @@ static int ceph_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	return err;
 }
 
-/*
- * lame release_pages helper.  release_pages() isn't exported to
- * modules.
- */
-static void ceph_release_pages(struct page **pages, int num)
-{
-	struct pagevec pvec;
-	int i;
-
-	pagevec_init(&pvec);
-	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
-		if (pagevec_add(&pvec, pages[i]) == 0)
-			pagevec_release(&pvec);
-	}
-	pagevec_release(&pvec);
-}
-
 /*
  * async writeback completion handler.
  *
@@ -776,7 +759,7 @@ static void writepages_finish(struct ceph_osd_request *req)
 		dout("writepages_finish %p wrote %llu bytes cleaned %d pages\n",
 		     inode, osd_data->length, rc >= 0 ? num_pages : 0);
 
-		ceph_release_pages(osd_data->pages, num_pages);
+		release_pages(osd_data->pages, num_pages);
 	}
 
 	ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs(ci, total_pages, snapc);