diff --git a/fs/btrfs/compression.c b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
index 7e214fd254e4..11dcda57e15c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/compression.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
@@ -914,8 +914,8 @@ static void free_workspaces(void)
  * Given an address space and start and length, compress the bytes into @pages
  * that are allocated on demand.
  *
- * @out_pages is used to return the number of pages allocated.  There
- * may be pages allocated even if we return an error.
+ * @out_pages is an in/out parameter, holds maximum number of pages to allocate
+ * and returns number of actually allocated pages
  *
  * @total_in is used to return the number of bytes actually read.  It
  * may be smaller than the input length if we had to exit early because we
@@ -930,7 +930,6 @@ static void free_workspaces(void)
  */
 int btrfs_compress_pages(int type, struct address_space *mapping,
 			 u64 start, struct page **pages,
-			 unsigned long nr_dest_pages,
 			 unsigned long *out_pages,
 			 unsigned long *total_in,
 			 unsigned long *total_out,
@@ -943,7 +942,7 @@ int btrfs_compress_pages(int type, struct address_space *mapping,
 
 	ret = btrfs_compress_op[type-1]->compress_pages(workspace, mapping,
 						      start, pages,
-						      nr_dest_pages, out_pages,
+						      out_pages,
 						      total_in, total_out,
 						      max_out);
 	free_workspace(type, workspace);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/compression.h b/fs/btrfs/compression.h
index 725d1e0bd25d..cfcec709c61b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/compression.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/compression.h
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ void btrfs_exit_compress(void);
 
 int btrfs_compress_pages(int type, struct address_space *mapping,
 			 u64 start, struct page **pages,
-			 unsigned long nr_dest_pages,
 			 unsigned long *out_pages,
 			 unsigned long *total_in,
 			 unsigned long *total_out,
@@ -60,7 +59,6 @@ struct btrfs_compress_op {
 			      struct address_space *mapping,
 			      u64 start,
 			      struct page **pages,
-			      unsigned long nr_dest_pages,
 			      unsigned long *out_pages,
 			      unsigned long *total_in,
 			      unsigned long *total_out,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 8b9eac33d431..83bbe1e31869 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ static noinline void compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct page **pages = NULL;
 	unsigned long nr_pages;
-	unsigned long nr_pages_ret = 0;
 	unsigned long total_compressed = 0;
 	unsigned long total_in = 0;
 	unsigned long max_compressed = SZ_128K;
@@ -518,7 +517,7 @@ static noinline void compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 		ret = btrfs_compress_pages(compress_type,
 					   inode->i_mapping, start,
 					   pages,
-					   nr_pages, &nr_pages_ret,
+					   &nr_pages,
 					   &total_in,
 					   &total_compressed,
 					   max_compressed);
@@ -526,7 +525,7 @@ static noinline void compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 		if (!ret) {
 			unsigned long offset = total_compressed &
 				(PAGE_SIZE - 1);
-			struct page *page = pages[nr_pages_ret - 1];
+			struct page *page = pages[nr_pages - 1];
 			char *kaddr;
 
 			/* zero the tail end of the last page, we might be
@@ -607,7 +606,7 @@ static noinline void compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 			 * will submit them to the elevator.
 			 */
 			add_async_extent(async_cow, start, num_bytes,
-					total_compressed, pages, nr_pages_ret,
+					total_compressed, pages, nr_pages,
 					compress_type);
 
 			if (start + num_bytes < end) {
@@ -624,14 +623,14 @@ static noinline void compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 		 * the compression code ran but failed to make things smaller,
 		 * free any pages it allocated and our page pointer array
 		 */
-		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages_ret; i++) {
+		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 			WARN_ON(pages[i]->mapping);
 			put_page(pages[i]);
 		}
 		kfree(pages);
 		pages = NULL;
 		total_compressed = 0;
-		nr_pages_ret = 0;
+		nr_pages = 0;
 
 		/* flag the file so we don't compress in the future */
 		if (!btrfs_test_opt(fs_info, FORCE_COMPRESS) &&
@@ -660,7 +659,7 @@ static noinline void compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 	return;
 
 free_pages_out:
-	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages_ret; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		WARN_ON(pages[i]->mapping);
 		put_page(pages[i]);
 	}
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/lzo.c b/fs/btrfs/lzo.c
index 489f78c4e5ec..0baf978fbcaf 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/lzo.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/lzo.c
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ static int lzo_compress_pages(struct list_head *ws,
 			      struct address_space *mapping,
 			      u64 start,
 			      struct page **pages,
-			      unsigned long nr_dest_pages,
 			      unsigned long *out_pages,
 			      unsigned long *total_in,
 			      unsigned long *total_out,
@@ -103,6 +102,7 @@ static int lzo_compress_pages(struct list_head *ws,
 	struct page *out_page = NULL;
 	unsigned long bytes_left;
 	unsigned long len = *total_out;
+	unsigned long nr_dest_pages = *out_pages;
 	size_t in_len;
 	size_t out_len;
 	char *buf;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/zlib.c b/fs/btrfs/zlib.c
index 42d76b7824c3..e7f2020f8ee7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/zlib.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/zlib.c
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ static int zlib_compress_pages(struct list_head *ws,
 			       struct address_space *mapping,
 			       u64 start,
 			       struct page **pages,
-			       unsigned long nr_dest_pages,
 			       unsigned long *out_pages,
 			       unsigned long *total_in,
 			       unsigned long *total_out,
@@ -90,6 +89,7 @@ static int zlib_compress_pages(struct list_head *ws,
 	struct page *out_page = NULL;
 	unsigned long bytes_left;
 	unsigned long len = *total_out;
+	unsigned long nr_dest_pages = *out_pages;
 
 	*out_pages = 0;
 	*total_out = 0;