diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9738343a9611..de67b1b33c3f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d0b496d2fc08cc51000fcdd9739235d1cab890cd
+refs/heads/master: cb17e556f6202c200d38a2e0c05a5bd29060389f
diff --git a/trunk/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c b/trunk/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
index af11e8b5d367..de4cb5cfc318 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -885,6 +885,14 @@ static __be32 *reserve_space(struct xdr_stream *xdr, size_t nbytes)
 	return p;
 }
 
+static void encode_opaque_fixed(struct xdr_stream *xdr, const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	__be32 *p;
+
+	p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, len);
+	xdr_encode_opaque_fixed(p, buf, len);
+}
+
 static void encode_string(struct xdr_stream *xdr, unsigned int len, const char *str)
 {
 	__be32 *p;
@@ -922,11 +930,7 @@ static void encode_nops(struct compound_hdr *hdr)
 
 static void encode_nfs4_verifier(struct xdr_stream *xdr, const nfs4_verifier *verf)
 {
-	__be32 *p;
-
-	p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, NFS4_VERIFIER_SIZE);
-	BUG_ON(p == NULL);
-	xdr_encode_opaque_fixed(p, verf->data, NFS4_VERIFIER_SIZE);
+	encode_opaque_fixed(xdr, verf->data, NFS4_VERIFIER_SIZE);
 }
 
 static void encode_attrs(struct xdr_stream *xdr, const struct iattr *iap, const struct nfs_server *server)