diff --git a/drivers/md/linear.c b/drivers/md/linear.c
index af2d39d..bb2a231 100644
--- a/drivers/md/linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/linear.c
@@ -172,12 +172,14 @@
 		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++;