diff -urN async-io_get_bh-ref/fs/buffer.c async-io_get_bh/fs/buffer.c
--- async-io_get_bh-ref/fs/buffer.c	Thu Jul 19 19:36:12 2001
+++ async-io_get_bh/fs/buffer.c	Thu Jul 19 19:36:22 2001
@@ -828,7 +828,6 @@
 
 	/* OK, the async IO on this page is complete. */
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
-	put_bh(bh);
 
 	/*
 	 * if none of the buffers had errors then we can set the
@@ -848,7 +847,6 @@
 	return;
 
 still_busy:
-	put_bh(bh);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
 	return;
 }
@@ -1546,7 +1544,6 @@
 	do {
 		lock_buffer(bh);
 		set_buffer_async_io(bh);
-		get_bh(bh);
 		set_bit(BH_Uptodate, &bh->b_state);
 		clear_bit(BH_Dirty, &bh->b_state);
 		bh = bh->b_this_page;
@@ -1748,7 +1745,6 @@
 		struct buffer_head * bh = arr[i];
 		lock_buffer(bh);
 		set_buffer_async_io(bh);
-		get_bh(bh);
 	}
 
 	/* Stage 3: start the IO */
@@ -2193,7 +2189,6 @@
 		bh->b_blocknr = *(b++);
 		set_bit(BH_Mapped, &bh->b_state);
 		set_buffer_async_io(bh);
-		get_bh(bh);
 		bh = bh->b_this_page;
 	} while (bh != head);
 
diff -urN async-io_get_bh-ref/fs/reiserfs/inode.c async-io_get_bh/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
--- async-io_get_bh-ref/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	Thu Jul 19 04:03:20 2001
+++ async-io_get_bh/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	Thu Jul 19 19:36:42 2001
@@ -1790,7 +1790,6 @@
     for(i = 0 ; i < nr ; i++) {
         bh = bhp[i] ;
 	lock_buffer(bh) ;
-	get_bh(bh) ;		   /* async end_io handler puts this */
 	set_buffer_async_io(bh) ;
 	/* submit_bh doesn't care if the buffer is dirty, but nobody
 	** later on in the call chain will be cleaning it.  So, we