diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 29e850a..e828ef1 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static int get_rx_bufs(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	int r, nlogs = 0;
 
 	while (datalen > 0) {
-		if (unlikely(headcount >= VHOST_NET_MAX_SG)) {
+		if (unlikely(headcount >= UIO_MAXIOV)) {
 			r = -ENOBUFS;
 			goto err;
 		}
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index c579dcc..a45270e 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -212,6 +212,45 @@ static int vhost_worker(void *data)
 	}
 }
 
+/* Helper to allocate iovec buffers for all vqs. */
+static long vhost_dev_alloc_iovecs(struct vhost_dev *dev)
+{
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
+		dev->vqs[i].indirect = kmalloc(sizeof *dev->vqs[i].indirect *
+					       UIO_MAXIOV, GFP_KERNEL);
+		dev->vqs[i].log = kmalloc(sizeof *dev->vqs[i].log * UIO_MAXIOV,
+					  GFP_KERNEL);
+		dev->vqs[i].heads = kmalloc(sizeof *dev->vqs[i].heads *
+					    UIO_MAXIOV, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+		if (!dev->vqs[i].indirect || !dev->vqs[i].log ||
+			!dev->vqs[i].heads)
+			goto err_nomem;
+	}
+	return 0;
+err_nomem:
+	for (; i >= 0; --i) {
+		kfree(dev->vqs[i].indirect);
+		kfree(dev->vqs[i].log);
+		kfree(dev->vqs[i].heads);
+	}
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static void vhost_dev_free_iovecs(struct vhost_dev *dev)
+{
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
+		kfree(dev->vqs[i].indirect);
+		dev->vqs[i].indirect = NULL;
+		kfree(dev->vqs[i].log);
+		dev->vqs[i].log = NULL;
+		kfree(dev->vqs[i].heads);
+		dev->vqs[i].heads = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
 long vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
 		    struct vhost_virtqueue *vqs, int nvqs)
 {
@@ -229,6 +268,9 @@ long vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
 	dev->worker = NULL;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
+		dev->vqs[i].log = NULL;
+		dev->vqs[i].indirect = NULL;
+		dev->vqs[i].heads = NULL;
 		dev->vqs[i].dev = dev;
 		mutex_init(&dev->vqs[i].mutex);
 		vhost_vq_reset(dev, dev->vqs + i);
@@ -295,6 +337,10 @@ static long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
 	if (err)
 		goto err_cgroup;
 
+	err = vhost_dev_alloc_iovecs(dev);
+	if (err)
+		goto err_cgroup;
+
 	return 0;
 err_cgroup:
 	kthread_stop(worker);
@@ -345,6 +391,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
 			fput(dev->vqs[i].call);
 		vhost_vq_reset(dev, dev->vqs + i);
 	}
+	vhost_dev_free_iovecs(dev);
 	if (dev->log_ctx)
 		eventfd_ctx_put(dev->log_ctx);
 	dev->log_ctx = NULL;
@@ -946,7 +993,7 @@ static int get_indirect(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	}
 
 	ret = translate_desc(dev, indirect->addr, indirect->len, vq->indirect,
-			     ARRAY_SIZE(vq->indirect));
+			     UIO_MAXIOV);
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
 		vq_err(vq, "Translation failure %d in indirect.\n", ret);
 		return ret;
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
index afd7729..edc8929 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@
 
 struct vhost_device;
 
-enum {
-	/* Enough place for all fragments, head, and virtio net header. */
-	VHOST_NET_MAX_SG = MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2,
-};
-
 struct vhost_work;
 typedef void (*vhost_work_fn_t)(struct vhost_work *work);
 
@@ -93,12 +88,15 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue {
 	bool log_used;
 	u64 log_addr;
 
-	struct iovec indirect[VHOST_NET_MAX_SG];
-	struct iovec iov[VHOST_NET_MAX_SG];
-	struct iovec hdr[VHOST_NET_MAX_SG];
+	struct iovec iov[UIO_MAXIOV];
+	/* hdr is used to store the virtio header.
+	 * Since each iovec has >= 1 byte length, we never need more than
+	 * header length entries to store the header. */
+	struct iovec hdr[sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf)];
+	struct iovec *indirect;
 	size_t vhost_hlen;
 	size_t sock_hlen;
-	struct vring_used_elem heads[VHOST_NET_MAX_SG];
+	struct vring_used_elem *heads;
 	/* We use a kind of RCU to access private pointer.
 	 * All readers access it from worker, which makes it possible to
 	 * flush the vhost_work instead of synchronize_rcu. Therefore readers do
@@ -109,7 +107,7 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue {
 	void *private_data;
 	/* Log write descriptors */
 	void __user *log_base;
-	struct vhost_log log[VHOST_NET_MAX_SG];
+	struct vhost_log *log;
 };
 
 struct vhost_dev {
