1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/linear.c b/drivers/md/linear.c
index af2d39d603c7..09437e958235 100644
--- a/drivers/md/linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/linear.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/raid/md_u.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include "md.h"
 #include "linear.h"
 
@@ -172,12 +173,14 @@ static linear_conf_t *linear_conf(mddev_t *mddev, int raid_disks)
                 disk_stack_limits(mddev->gendisk, rdev->bdev,
                                   rdev->data_offset << 9);
                 /* as we don't honour merge_bvec_fn, we must never risk
-                 * violating it, so limit ->max_sector to one PAGE, as
-                 * a one page request is never in violation.
+                 * violating it, so limit max_segments to 1 lying within
+                 * a single page.
                  */
-                if (rdev->bdev->bd_disk->queue->merge_bvec_fn &&
-                    queue_max_sectors(mddev->queue) > (PAGE_SIZE>>9))
-                        blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(mddev->queue, PAGE_SIZE>>9);
+                if (rdev->bdev->bd_disk->queue->merge_bvec_fn) {
+                        blk_queue_max_segments(mddev->queue, 1);
+                        blk_queue_segment_boundary(mddev->queue,
+                                                   PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
+                }
 
                 conf->array_sectors += rdev->sectors;
                 cnt++;