diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
index b8818c09a621f6a0bd141e5f57ab78c00b829e26..3c9255824d94f3e493323744f634d596ed821635 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ rpcrdma_prepare_msg_sges(struct rpcrdma_ia *ia, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
 	}
 
 out:
-	req->rl_send_wr.num_sge = sge_no + 1;
+	req->rl_send_wr.num_sge += sge_no;
 	return true;
 
 out_mapping_overflow: