diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/apple.c b/drivers/nvme/host/apple.c
index 806dd55d5518..c63e28c75766 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/apple.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/apple.c
@@ -47,9 +47,6 @@
 #define APPLE_ANS_BOOT_STATUS	 0x1300
 #define APPLE_ANS_BOOT_STATUS_OK 0xde71ce55
 
-#define APPLE_ANS_UNKNOWN_CTRL	 0x24008
-#define APPLE_ANS_PRP_NULL_CHECK BIT(11)
-
 #define APPLE_ANS_LINEAR_SQ_CTRL 0x24908
 #define APPLE_ANS_LINEAR_SQ_EN	 BIT(0)
 
@@ -1143,17 +1140,6 @@ static void apple_nvme_reset_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		/* Setup the NVMMU for the maximum admin and IO queue depth */
 		writel(anv->hw->max_queue_depth - 1,
 			anv->mmio_nvme + APPLE_NVMMU_NUM_TCBS);
-
-		/*
-		 * This is probably a chicken bit: without it all commands
-		 * where any PRP is set to zero (including those that don't use
-		 * that field) fail and the co-processor complains about
-		 * "completed with err BAD_CMD-" or a "NULL_PRP_PTR_ERR" in the
-		 * syslog
-		 */
-		writel(readl(anv->mmio_nvme + APPLE_ANS_UNKNOWN_CTRL) &
-			~APPLE_ANS_PRP_NULL_CHECK,
-			anv->mmio_nvme + APPLE_ANS_UNKNOWN_CTRL);
 	}
 
 	/* Setup the admin queue */