diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c
index e6a1932c711..35869a4921f 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c
@@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ nfs3_xdr_setaclargs(struct rpc_rqst *req, __be32 *p,
 	if (args->npages != 0)
 		xdr_encode_pages(buf, args->pages, 0, args->len);
 	else
-		req->rq_slen += args->len;
+		req->rq_slen = xdr_adjust_iovec(req->rq_svec,
+				p + XDR_QUADLEN(args->len));
 
 	err = nfsacl_encode(buf, base, args->inode,
 			    (args->mask & NFS_ACL) ?