diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 66c3cfe..3531d8e 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1135,6 +1135,38 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_put_request);
 
+/**
+ * blk_add_request_payload - add a payload to a request
+ * @rq: request to update
+ * @page: page backing the payload
+ * @len: length of the payload.
+ *
+ * This allows to later add a payload to an already submitted request by
+ * a block driver.  The driver needs to take care of freeing the payload
+ * itself.
+ *
+ * Note that this is a quite horrible hack and nothing but handling of
+ * discard requests should ever use it.
+ */
+void blk_add_request_payload(struct request *rq, struct page *page,
+		unsigned int len)
+{
+	struct bio *bio = rq->bio;
+
+	bio->bi_io_vec->bv_page = page;
+	bio->bi_io_vec->bv_offset = 0;
+	bio->bi_io_vec->bv_len = len;
+
+	bio->bi_size = len;
+	bio->bi_vcnt = 1;
+	bio->bi_phys_segments = 1;
+
+	rq->__data_len = rq->resid_len = len;
+	rq->nr_phys_segments = 1;
+	rq->buffer = bio_data(bio);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_add_request_payload);
+
 void init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio)
 {
 	req->cpu = bio->bi_comp_cpu;
diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
index d0216b9..e16185b 100644
--- a/block/blk-lib.c
+++ b/block/blk-lib.c
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 
 	if (bio->bi_private)
 		complete(bio->bi_private);
-	__free_page(bio_page(bio));
 
 	bio_put(bio);
 }
@@ -43,7 +42,6 @@
 	int type = flags & BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER ?
 		DISCARD_BARRIER : DISCARD_NOBARRIER;
 	struct bio *bio;
-	struct page *page;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (!q)
@@ -53,35 +51,21 @@
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	while (nr_sects && !ret) {
-		unsigned int sector_size = q->limits.logical_block_size;
 		unsigned int max_discard_sectors =
 			min(q->limits.max_discard_sectors, UINT_MAX >> 9);
 
 		bio = bio_alloc(gfp_mask, 1);
-		if (!bio)
-			goto out;
+		if (!bio) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			break;
+		}
+
 		bio->bi_sector = sector;
 		bio->bi_end_io = blkdev_discard_end_io;
 		bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
 		if (flags & BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT)
 			bio->bi_private = &wait;
 
-		/*
-		 * Add a zeroed one-sector payload as that's what
-		 * our current implementations need.  If we'll ever need
-		 * more the interface will need revisiting.
-		 */
-		page = alloc_page(gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO);
-		if (!page)
-			goto out_free_bio;
-		if (bio_add_pc_page(q, bio, page, sector_size, 0) < sector_size)
-			goto out_free_page;
-
-		/*
-		 * And override the bio size - the way discard works we
-		 * touch many more blocks on disk than the actual payload
-		 * length.
-		 */
 		if (nr_sects > max_discard_sectors) {
 			bio->bi_size = max_discard_sectors << 9;
 			nr_sects -= max_discard_sectors;
@@ -103,13 +87,8 @@
 			ret = -EIO;
 		bio_put(bio);
 	}
+
 	return ret;
-out_free_page:
-	__free_page(page);
-out_free_bio:
-	bio_put(bio);
-out:
-	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_issue_discard);