diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index ab37ae114e943c20c161f88b8c2a739206bfafab..0d7ab20c58dffc40d5c56c9427b7dd7f090c8bd3 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1729,7 +1729,8 @@ static int dm_merge_bvec(struct request_queue *q,
 	struct mapped_device *md = q->queuedata;
 	struct dm_table *map = dm_get_live_table_fast(md);
 	struct dm_target *ti;
-	sector_t max_sectors, max_size = 0;
+	sector_t max_sectors;
+	int max_size = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(!map))
 		goto out;
@@ -1742,18 +1743,10 @@ static int dm_merge_bvec(struct request_queue *q,
 	 * Find maximum amount of I/O that won't need splitting
 	 */
 	max_sectors = min(max_io_len(bvm->bi_sector, ti),
-			  (sector_t) queue_max_sectors(q));
+			  (sector_t) BIO_MAX_SECTORS);
 	max_size = (max_sectors << SECTOR_SHIFT) - bvm->bi_size;
-
-	/*
-	 * FIXME: this stop-gap fix _must_ be cleaned up (by passing a sector_t
-	 * to the targets' merge function since it holds sectors not bytes).
-	 * Just doing this as an interim fix for stable@ because the more
-	 * comprehensive cleanup of switching to sector_t will impact every
-	 * DM target that implements a ->merge hook.
-	 */
-	if (max_size > INT_MAX)
-		max_size = INT_MAX;
+	if (max_size < 0)
+		max_size = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * merge_bvec_fn() returns number of bytes
@@ -1761,13 +1754,13 @@ static int dm_merge_bvec(struct request_queue *q,
 	 * max is precomputed maximal io size
 	 */
 	if (max_size && ti->type->merge)
-		max_size = ti->type->merge(ti, bvm, biovec, (int) max_size);
+		max_size = ti->type->merge(ti, bvm, biovec, max_size);
 	/*
 	 * If the target doesn't support merge method and some of the devices
-	 * provided their merge_bvec method (we know this by looking for the
-	 * max_hw_sectors that dm_set_device_limits may set), then we can't
-	 * allow bios with multiple vector entries.  So always set max_size
-	 * to 0, and the code below allows just one page.
+	 * provided their merge_bvec method (we know this by looking at
+	 * queue_max_hw_sectors), then we can't allow bios with multiple vector
+	 * entries.  So always set max_size to 0, and the code below allows
+	 * just one page.
 	 */
 	else if (queue_max_hw_sectors(q) <= PAGE_SIZE >> 9)
 		max_size = 0;