diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index 5bfa357601672..f43a2c0b3d77c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -1656,8 +1656,8 @@ static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(struct crypt_config *cc, struct bio *clone);
 
 /*
  * Generate a new unfragmented bio with the given size
- * This should never violate the device limitations (but only because
- * max_segment_size is being constrained to PAGE_SIZE).
+ * This should never violate the device limitations (but if it did then block
+ * core should split the bio as needed).
  *
  * This function may be called concurrently. If we allocate from the mempool
  * concurrently, there is a possibility of deadlock. For example, if we have
@@ -3717,14 +3717,6 @@ static void crypt_io_hints(struct dm_target *ti, struct queue_limits *limits)
 {
 	struct crypt_config *cc = ti->private;
 
-	/*
-	 * Unfortunate constraint that is required to avoid the potential
-	 * for exceeding underlying device's max_segments limits -- due to
-	 * crypt_alloc_buffer() possibly allocating pages for the encryption
-	 * bio that are not as physically contiguous as the original bio.
-	 */
-	limits->max_segment_size = PAGE_SIZE;
-
 	limits->logical_block_size =
 		max_t(unsigned int, limits->logical_block_size, cc->sector_size);
 	limits->physical_block_size =