diff --git a/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c b/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c
index ecc02a427b92..376486be3f55 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c
@@ -104,10 +104,13 @@ static int iio_dmaengine_buffer_submit_block(struct iio_dma_buffer_queue *queue,
 	if (block->sg_table) {
 		unsigned long flags;
 
-		sgl = block->sg_table->sgl;
-		nents = sg_nents_for_len(sgl, block->bytes_used);
-		if (nents < 0)
-			return nents;
+		/*
+		 * Only the first sgt->nents entries carry a valid
+		 * sg_dma_address()/sg_dma_len() pair as mapping the table may
+		 * have coalesced entries, in which case nents is smaller than
+		 * orig_nents.
+		 */
+		nents = block->sg_table->nents;
 
 		vecs = kmalloc_array(nents, sizeof(*vecs), GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (!vecs)
@@ -115,7 +118,8 @@ static int iio_dmaengine_buffer_submit_block(struct iio_dma_buffer_queue *queue,
 
 		len_total = block->bytes_used;
 
-		for (i = 0; i < nents; i++) {
+		sgl = block->sg_table->sgl;
+		for (i = 0; i < nents && len_total; i++) {
 			vecs[i].addr = sg_dma_address(sgl);
 			vecs[i].len = min(sg_dma_len(sgl), len_total);
 			len_total -= vecs[i].len;
@@ -123,6 +127,8 @@ static int iio_dmaengine_buffer_submit_block(struct iio_dma_buffer_queue *queue,
 			sgl = sg_next(sgl);
 		}
 
+		nents = i;
+
 		if (block->cyclic)
 			flags = DMA_PREP_REPEAT;
 		else