diff --git a/fs/ceph/addr.c b/fs/ceph/addr.c
index ce3c773726c53a9c80adfad5e8ee235dd9cc5a11..6dfff0ba4d980253e635d859cf3a521a8e976712 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/addr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c
@@ -1149,7 +1149,6 @@ static int ceph_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 		page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, 0);
 		if (!page)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		*pagep = page;
 
 		dout("write_begin file %p inode %p page %p %d~%d\n", file,
 		     inode, page, (int)pos, (int)len);