assert(sg != NULL);
 
        if (qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_SINGLE)
-               assert(qc->n_elem == 1);
+               assert(qc->n_elem <= 1);
 
        VPRINTK("unmapping %u sg elements\n", qc->n_elem);
 
                        kunmap_atomic(addr, KM_IRQ0);
                }
        } else {
-               if (sg_dma_len(&sg[0]) > 0)
+               if (qc->n_elem)
                        dma_unmap_single(ap->host_set->dev,
                                sg_dma_address(&sg[0]), sg_dma_len(&sg[0]),
                                dir);
        int dir = qc->dma_dir;
        struct scatterlist *sg = qc->__sg;
        dma_addr_t dma_address;
+       int trim_sg = 0;
 
        /* we must lengthen transfers to end on a 32-bit boundary */
        qc->pad_len = sg->length & 3;
                sg_dma_len(psg) = ATA_DMA_PAD_SZ;
                /* trim sg */
                sg->length -= qc->pad_len;
+               if (sg->length == 0)
+                       trim_sg = 1;
 
                DPRINTK("padding done, sg->length=%u pad_len=%u\n",
                        sg->length, qc->pad_len);
        }
 
-       if (!sg->length) {
-               sg_dma_address(sg) = 0;
+       if (trim_sg) {
+               qc->n_elem--;
                goto skip_map;
        }
 
        }
 
        sg_dma_address(sg) = dma_address;
-skip_map:
        sg_dma_len(sg) = sg->length;
 
+skip_map:
        DPRINTK("mapped buffer of %d bytes for %s\n", sg_dma_len(sg),
                qc->tf.flags & ATA_TFLAG_WRITE ? "write" : "read");