diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index 2ae348c101a05f004a069d04726445436e68acef..2c1831207a8f74de455679551f79d8862450eed0 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -752,7 +752,8 @@ void blk_queue_virt_boundary(struct request_queue *q, unsigned long mask)
 	 * page (which might not be idential to the Linux PAGE_SIZE).  Because
 	 * of that they are not limited by our notion of "segment size".
 	 */
-	q->limits.max_segment_size = UINT_MAX;
+	if (mask)
+		q->limits.max_segment_size = UINT_MAX;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_virt_boundary);