status = nfs_ok;
        if (setattr->sa_iattr.ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
                nfs4_lock_state();
-               if ((status = nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op(current_fh,
-                                               &setattr->sa_stateid,
-                                               CHECK_FH | WR_STATE, NULL))) {
-                       dprintk("NFSD: nfsd4_setattr: couldn't process stateid!\n");
-                       goto out_unlock;
-               }
+               status = nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op(current_fh,
+                       &setattr->sa_stateid, CHECK_FH | WR_STATE, NULL);
                nfs4_unlock_state();
+               if (status) {
+                       dprintk("NFSD: nfsd4_setattr: couldn't process stateid!");
+                       return status;
+               }
        }
        status = nfs_ok;
        if (setattr->sa_acl != NULL)
                status = nfsd4_set_nfs4_acl(rqstp, current_fh, setattr->sa_acl);
        if (status)
-               goto out;
+               return status;
        status = nfsd_setattr(rqstp, current_fh, &setattr->sa_iattr,
                                0, (time_t)0);
-out:
-       return status;
-out_unlock:
-       nfs4_unlock_state();
        return status;
 }
 
                return nfserr_inval;
 
        nfs4_lock_state();
-       if ((status = nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op(current_fh, stateid,
-                                       CHECK_FH | WR_STATE, &filp))) {
-               dprintk("NFSD: nfsd4_write: couldn't process stateid!\n");
-               goto out;
-       }
+       status = nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op(current_fh, stateid,
+                                       CHECK_FH | WR_STATE, &filp);
        if (filp)
                get_file(filp);
        nfs4_unlock_state();
 
+       if (status) {
+               dprintk("NFSD: nfsd4_write: couldn't process stateid!\n");
+               return status;
+       }
+
        write->wr_bytes_written = write->wr_buflen;
        write->wr_how_written = write->wr_stable_how;
        p = (u32 *)write->wr_verifier.data;
        if (status == nfserr_symlink)
                status = nfserr_inval;
        return status;
-out:
-       nfs4_unlock_state();
-       return status;
 }
 
 /* This routine never returns NFS_OK!  If there are no other errors, it