The differences between those two are
* pipe_get_pages() gets a non-NULL struct page ** value pointing to
preallocated array + array size.
* pipe_get_pages_alloc() gets an address of struct page ** variable that
contains NULL, allocates the array and (on success) stores its address in
that variable.
Not hard to combine - always pass struct page ***, have
the previous pipe_get_pages_alloc() caller pass ~0U as cap for
array size.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>