diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_device.c b/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
index 7653cfb027a200cbec0dd51c95047708837c7227..ee4b89fb8841a13586e0e3e6d08eefd294aef41b 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
@@ -1156,10 +1156,10 @@ int se_dev_set_optimal_sectors(struct se_device *dev, u32 optimal_sectors)
 			dev, dev->export_count);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	if (optimal_sectors > dev->dev_attrib.fabric_max_sectors) {
+	if (optimal_sectors > dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors) {
 		pr_err("dev[%p]: Passed optimal_sectors %u cannot be"
-			" greater than fabric_max_sectors: %u\n", dev,
-			optimal_sectors, dev->dev_attrib.fabric_max_sectors);
+			" greater than hw_max_sectors: %u\n", dev,
+			optimal_sectors, dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
@@ -1554,7 +1554,6 @@ struct se_device *target_alloc_device(struct se_hba *hba, const char *name)
 				DA_UNMAP_GRANULARITY_ALIGNMENT_DEFAULT;
 	dev->dev_attrib.max_write_same_len = DA_MAX_WRITE_SAME_LEN;
 	dev->dev_attrib.fabric_max_sectors = DA_FABRIC_MAX_SECTORS;
-	dev->dev_attrib.optimal_sectors = DA_FABRIC_MAX_SECTORS;
 
 	xcopy_lun = &dev->xcopy_lun;
 	xcopy_lun->lun_se_dev = dev;
@@ -1595,6 +1594,7 @@ int target_configure_device(struct se_device *dev)
 	dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors =
 		se_dev_align_max_sectors(dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors,
 					 dev->dev_attrib.hw_block_size);
+	dev->dev_attrib.optimal_sectors = dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors;
 
 	dev->dev_index = scsi_get_new_index(SCSI_DEVICE_INDEX);
 	dev->creation_time = get_jiffies_64();
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c
index c2aea099ea4adf7c0ee60ac7949fa02089162932..b09021135c3b78fa98b4becd91f4347c02867385 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c
@@ -621,7 +621,16 @@ fd_execute_rw(struct se_cmd *cmd, struct scatterlist *sgl, u32 sgl_nents,
 	struct fd_prot fd_prot;
 	sense_reason_t rc;
 	int ret = 0;
-
+	/*
+	 * We are currently limited by the number of iovecs (2048) per
+	 * single vfs_[writev,readv] call.
+	 */
+	if (cmd->data_length > FD_MAX_BYTES) {
+		pr_err("FILEIO: Not able to process I/O of %u bytes due to"
+		       "FD_MAX_BYTES: %u iovec count limitiation\n",
+			cmd->data_length, FD_MAX_BYTES);
+		return TCM_LOGICAL_UNIT_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE;
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Call vectorized fileio functions to map struct scatterlist
 	 * physical memory addresses to struct iovec virtual memory.
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
index 3efff94fbd9788838f565218965d180b78a67604..5795cd8ab5d99555855c4f924ccc3828378038d5 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static int iblock_configure_device(struct se_device *dev)
 	q = bdev_get_queue(bd);
 
 	dev->dev_attrib.hw_block_size = bdev_logical_block_size(bd);
-	dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors = UINT_MAX;
+	dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors = queue_max_hw_sectors(q);
 	dev->dev_attrib.hw_queue_depth = q->nr_requests;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c b/drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c
index 11bea1952435a397172ce69804a1088567bde03f..cd4bed7b27579b14a0f6e517eed23dacb6c1fe02 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c
@@ -953,21 +953,6 @@ sbc_parse_cdb(struct se_cmd *cmd, struct sbc_ops *ops)
 
 	if (cmd->se_cmd_flags & SCF_SCSI_DATA_CDB) {
 		unsigned long long end_lba;
-
-		if (sectors > dev->dev_attrib.fabric_max_sectors) {
-			printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR "SCSI OP %02xh with too"
-				" big sectors %u exceeds fabric_max_sectors:"
-				" %u\n", cdb[0], sectors,
-				dev->dev_attrib.fabric_max_sectors);
-			return TCM_INVALID_CDB_FIELD;
-		}
-		if (sectors > dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors) {
-			printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR "SCSI OP %02xh with too"
-				" big sectors %u exceeds backend hw_max_sectors:"
-				" %u\n", cdb[0], sectors,
-				dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors);
-			return TCM_INVALID_CDB_FIELD;
-		}
 check_lba:
 		end_lba = dev->transport->get_blocks(dev) + 1;
 		if (cmd->t_task_lba + sectors > end_lba) {
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_spc.c b/drivers/target/target_core_spc.c
index 1307600fe7264cb55234b6b8e88d8cc15878c799..4c71657da56ab3cdc96b5c1f8d784722f10e2c1d 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_spc.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_spc.c
@@ -505,7 +505,6 @@ static sense_reason_t
 spc_emulate_evpd_b0(struct se_cmd *cmd, unsigned char *buf)
 {
 	struct se_device *dev = cmd->se_dev;
-	u32 max_sectors;
 	int have_tp = 0;
 	int opt, min;
 
@@ -539,9 +538,7 @@ spc_emulate_evpd_b0(struct se_cmd *cmd, unsigned char *buf)
 	/*
 	 * Set MAXIMUM TRANSFER LENGTH
 	 */
-	max_sectors = min(dev->dev_attrib.fabric_max_sectors,
-			  dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors);
-	put_unaligned_be32(max_sectors, &buf[8]);
+	put_unaligned_be32(dev->dev_attrib.hw_max_sectors, &buf[8]);
 
 	/*
 	 * Set OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH