diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index 04b6bde9419d2a49d74d7d9d65442c72dffafcdc..bd8b129196d49a846c2b6bfb0caa0df531bc4e7b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -2766,8 +2766,6 @@ enum drbd_ret_code drbd_create_device(struct drbd_config_context *adm_ctx, unsig
 	disk->private_data = device;
 
 	device->this_bdev = bdget(MKDEV(DRBD_MAJOR, minor));
-	/* we have no partitions. we contain only ourselves. */
-	device->this_bdev->bd_contains = device->this_bdev;
 
 	blk_queue_write_cache(q, true, true);
 	/* Setting the max_hw_sectors to an odd value of 8kibyte here