return ret;
 }
 
-/*
- * ext4_new_meta_block() -- allocate block for meta data (indexing) blocks
- *
- * @handle:             handle to this transaction
- * @inode:              file inode
- * @goal:               given target block(filesystem wide)
- * @errp:               error code
- *
- * Return allocated block number on success
- */
-ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
-               ext4_fsblk_t goal, int *errp)
-{
-       unsigned long count = 1;
-       return ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode, goal, &count, errp);
-}
-
 /**
  * ext4_count_free_blocks() -- count filesystem free blocks
  * @sb:                superblock
 
 extern int ext4_bg_has_super(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group);
 extern unsigned long ext4_bg_num_gdb(struct super_block *sb,
                        ext4_group_t group);
-extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
-                       ext4_fsblk_t goal, int *errp);
 extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                        ext4_fsblk_t goal, unsigned long *count, int *errp);
 extern int ext4_claim_free_blocks(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, s64 nblocks);
 
                        struct ext4_extent *ex, int *err)
 {
        ext4_fsblk_t goal, newblock;
+       unsigned long count = 1;
 
        goal = ext4_ext_find_goal(inode, path, le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block));
-       newblock = ext4_new_meta_block(handle, inode, goal, err);
+       newblock = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode, goal, &count, err);
        return newblock;
 }
 
 
                     struct ext4_xattr_info *i,
                     struct ext4_xattr_block_find *bs)
 {
+       unsigned long count = 1;
        struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
        struct buffer_head *new_bh = NULL;
        struct ext4_xattr_search *s = &bs->s;
                        /* We need to allocate a new block */
                        ext4_fsblk_t goal = ext4_group_first_block_no(sb,
                                                EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_group);
-                       ext4_fsblk_t block = ext4_new_meta_block(handle, inode,
-                                                       goal, &error);
+                       ext4_fsblk_t block = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode,
+                                                 goal, &count, &error);
                        if (error)
                                goto cleanup;
                        ea_idebug(inode, "creating block %d", block);