const struct path *path)
 {
        struct path cur = *path;
-       __be32 *p;
        struct dentry **components = NULL;
        unsigned int ncomponents = 0;
        __be32 err = nfserr_jukebox;
                components[ncomponents++] = cur.dentry;
                cur.dentry = dget_parent(cur.dentry);
        }
+
        err = nfserr_resource;
-       p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 4);
-       if (!p)
+       if (xdr_stream_encode_u32(xdr, ncomponents) != XDR_UNIT)
                goto out_free;
-       *p++ = cpu_to_be32(ncomponents);
-
        while (ncomponents) {
                struct dentry *dentry = components[ncomponents - 1];
-               unsigned int len;
 
                spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-               len = dentry->d_name.len;
-               p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, len + 4);
-               if (!p) {
+               if (xdr_stream_encode_opaque(xdr, dentry->d_name.name,
+                                            dentry->d_name.len) < 0) {
                        spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
                        goto out_free;
                }
-               p = xdr_encode_opaque(p, dentry->d_name.name, len);
                dprintk("/%pd", dentry);
                spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
                dput(dentry);