diff --git a/src/node/net/p2p.ml b/src/node/net/p2p.ml
index 84c71d639..982018524 100644
--- a/src/node/net/p2p.ml
+++ b/src/node/net/p2p.ml
@@ -196,19 +196,8 @@ module Make (P: PARAMS) = struct
 
   module BE = EndianBigstring.BigEndian
 
-  (** Read a message from a file descriptor and returns (tag, msg) *)
-  let read fd buf =
-    let rec read_into_exactly ?(pos=0) ?len descr buf =
-      let len = match len with None -> MBytes.length buf | Some l -> l in
-      let rec inner pos len =
-        if len = 0 then
-          Lwt.return_unit
-        else
-          Lwt_bytes.read descr buf pos len >>= fun nb_read ->
-          inner (pos + nb_read) (len - nb_read)
-      in
-      inner pos len
-    in
+  (* read a message from a TCP socket *)
+  let recv_msg fd buf =
     catch (fun () ->
       Lwt_bytes.recv fd buf 0 4 [ Lwt_unix.MSG_PEEK ] >>= fun hdrlen ->
       if hdrlen <> 4 then begin
@@ -223,42 +212,26 @@ module Make (P: PARAMS) = struct
           return None
         end
         else
-          read_into_exactly fd buf ~pos:4 ~len >|= fun () ->
+          Lwt_utils.read_mbytes fd buf ~pos:4 ~len >|= fun () ->
           let tag = BE.get_uint8 buf 4 in
-          Some (tag, MBytes.sub buf 4 len))
+          let msg = MBytes.sub buf 4 len in
+          match max_length tag with
+          | Some len when MBytes.length msg > len -> None
+          | _ -> Data_encoding.Binary.of_bytes msg_encoding msg)
       (function
         | Unix.Unix_error (_err, _, _) -> return None
         | e -> fail e)
 
-  (** Write a message to file descriptor. *)
-  let write ?(pos=0) ?len descr buf =
-    let len = match len with None -> MBytes.length buf | Some l -> l in
-    catch
-      (fun () ->
-         Lwt_bytes.write descr buf pos len >>= fun _nb_written ->
-         return true)
-      (function
-        | Unix.Unix_error _ -> return false
-        | e -> fail e)
-
-  (* read a message from a TCP socket *)
-  let recv_msg fd buf =
-    read fd buf >|= function
-    | None -> None
-    | Some (tag, msg) ->
-        match max_length tag with
-        | Some len when MBytes.length msg > len -> None
-        | _ -> Data_encoding.Binary.of_bytes msg_encoding msg
-
   (* send a message over a TCP socket *)
   let send_msg fd buf packet =
     catch
       (fun () ->
          match Data_encoding.Binary.write msg_encoding packet buf 4 with
-         | None -> return false
+         | None -> return_false
          | Some len ->
              BE.set_int32 buf 0 @@ Int32.of_int (len - 4);
-             write fd buf ~len
+             Lwt_utils.write_mbytes fd buf ~len >>= fun () ->
+             return_true
       )
       (fun exn -> Lwt.fail exn)