diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index c548a5a6c1a0..c2e5b2ad88bc 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -382,7 +382,6 @@ static struct brd_device *brd_alloc(int i)
 		goto out_free_dev;
 
 	blk_queue_make_request(brd->brd_queue, brd_make_request);
-	blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(brd->brd_queue, 1024);
 
 	/* This is so fdisk will align partitions on 4k, because of
 	 * direct_access API needing 4k alignment, returning a PFN