diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
index f1889f4d4803..491ae9fc561f 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static bool rpcrdma_args_inline(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt,
 	if (xdr->page_len) {
 		remaining = xdr->page_len;
 		offset = offset_in_page(xdr->page_base);
-		count = 0;
+		count = RPCRDMA_MIN_SEND_SGES;
 		while (remaining) {
 			remaining -= min_t(unsigned int,
 					   PAGE_SIZE - offset, remaining);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
index 11a1fbf7e59e..cdf51c272c62 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ rpcrdma_ep_create(struct rpcrdma_ep *ep, struct rpcrdma_ia *ia,
 		pr_warn("rpcrdma: HCA provides only %d send SGEs\n", max_sge);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	ia->ri_max_send_sges = max_sge - RPCRDMA_MIN_SEND_SGES;
+	ia->ri_max_send_sges = max_sge;
 
 	if (ia->ri_device->attrs.max_qp_wr <= RPCRDMA_BACKWARD_WRS) {
 		dprintk("RPC:       %s: insufficient wqe's available\n",