return sblock;
 }
 
+/* Allocate a new scrub sector and attach it to @sblock */
+static struct scrub_sector *alloc_scrub_sector(struct scrub_block *sblock, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+       struct scrub_sector *ssector;
+
+       ssector = kzalloc(sizeof(*ssector), gfp);
+       if (!ssector)
+               return NULL;
+       ssector->page = alloc_page(gfp);
+       if (!ssector->page) {
+               kfree(ssector);
+               return NULL;
+       }
+       atomic_set(&ssector->refs, 1);
+       ssector->sblock = sblock;
+       /* The sector to be added should not be used */
+       ASSERT(sblock->sectors[sblock->sector_count] == NULL);
+       /* The sector count must be smaller than the limit */
+       ASSERT(sblock->sector_count < SCRUB_MAX_SECTORS_PER_BLOCK);
+
+       sblock->sectors[sblock->sector_count] = ssector;
+       sblock->sector_count++;
+
+       return ssector;
+}
+
 static int scrub_setup_recheck_block(struct scrub_block *original_sblock,
                                     struct scrub_block *sblocks_for_recheck[]);
 static void scrub_recheck_block(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
                        sblock = sblocks_for_recheck[mirror_index];
                        sblock->sctx = sctx;
 
-                       sector = kzalloc(sizeof(*sector), GFP_NOFS);
+                       sector = alloc_scrub_sector(sblock, GFP_NOFS);
                        if (!sector) {
-leave_nomem:
                                spin_lock(&sctx->stat_lock);
                                sctx->stat.malloc_errors++;
                                spin_unlock(&sctx->stat_lock);
                                scrub_put_recover(fs_info, recover);
                                return -ENOMEM;
                        }
-                       scrub_sector_get(sector);
-                       sblock->sectors[sector_index] = sector;
-                       sector->sblock = sblock;
                        sector->flags = flags;
                        sector->generation = generation;
                        sector->logical = logical;
                                physical_for_dev_replace;
                        /* For missing devices, dev->bdev is NULL */
                        sector->mirror_num = mirror_index + 1;
-                       sblock->sector_count++;
-                       sector->page = alloc_page(GFP_NOFS);
-                       if (!sector->page)
-                               goto leave_nomem;
-
                        scrub_get_recover(recover);
                        sector->recover = recover;
                }
                 */
                u32 l = min(sectorsize, len);
 
-               sector = kzalloc(sizeof(*sector), GFP_KERNEL);
+               sector = alloc_scrub_sector(sblock, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!sector) {
-leave_nomem:
                        spin_lock(&sctx->stat_lock);
                        sctx->stat.malloc_errors++;
                        spin_unlock(&sctx->stat_lock);
                        scrub_block_put(sblock);
                        return -ENOMEM;
                }
-               ASSERT(index < SCRUB_MAX_SECTORS_PER_BLOCK);
-               scrub_sector_get(sector);
-               sblock->sectors[index] = sector;
-               sector->sblock = sblock;
                sector->dev = dev;
                sector->flags = flags;
                sector->generation = gen;
                } else {
                        sector->have_csum = 0;
                }
-               sblock->sector_count++;
-               sector->page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!sector->page)
-                       goto leave_nomem;
                len -= l;
                logical += l;
                physical += l;
        for (index = 0; len > 0; index++) {
                struct scrub_sector *sector;
 
-               sector = kzalloc(sizeof(*sector), GFP_KERNEL);
+               sector = alloc_scrub_sector(sblock, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!sector) {
-leave_nomem:
                        spin_lock(&sctx->stat_lock);
                        sctx->stat.malloc_errors++;
                        spin_unlock(&sctx->stat_lock);
                        scrub_block_put(sblock);
                        return -ENOMEM;
                }
-               ASSERT(index < SCRUB_MAX_SECTORS_PER_BLOCK);
-               /* For scrub block */
-               scrub_sector_get(sector);
                sblock->sectors[index] = sector;
                /* For scrub parity */
                scrub_sector_get(sector);
                list_add_tail(§or->list, &sparity->sectors_list);
-               sector->sblock = sblock;
                sector->dev = dev;
                sector->flags = flags;
                sector->generation = gen;
                } else {
                        sector->have_csum = 0;
                }
-               sblock->sector_count++;
-               sector->page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!sector->page)
-                       goto leave_nomem;
-
 
                /* Iterate over the stripe range in sectorsize steps */
                len -= sectorsize;