diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index 92fdf9c35de2153fd6f008c4d1306ead6d806c89..df9f682708c6a6f4e17ea308c26f972ad48599e8 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -1963,8 +1963,6 @@ wdata_alloc_and_fillpages(pgoff_t tofind, struct address_space *mapping,
 			  pgoff_t end, pgoff_t *index,
 			  unsigned int *found_pages)
 {
-	unsigned int nr_pages;
-	struct page **pages;
 	struct cifs_writedata *wdata;
 
 	wdata = cifs_writedata_alloc((unsigned int)tofind,
@@ -1972,23 +1970,8 @@ wdata_alloc_and_fillpages(pgoff_t tofind, struct address_space *mapping,
 	if (!wdata)
 		return NULL;
 
-	/*
-	 * find_get_pages_tag seems to return a max of 256 on each
-	 * iteration, so we must call it several times in order to
-	 * fill the array or the wsize is effectively limited to
-	 * 256 * PAGE_SIZE.
-	 */
-	*found_pages = 0;
-	pages = wdata->pages;
-	do {
-		nr_pages = find_get_pages_tag(mapping, index,
-					      PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, tofind,
-					      pages);
-		*found_pages += nr_pages;
-		tofind -= nr_pages;
-		pages += nr_pages;
-	} while (nr_pages && tofind && *index <= end);
-
+	*found_pages = find_get_pages_range_tag(mapping, index, end,
+				PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, tofind, wdata->pages);
 	return wdata;
 }