diff --git a/scst/include/scst.h b/scst/include/scst.h
index 1c9bca356..f3c6f062c 100644
--- a/scst/include/scst.h
+++ b/scst/include/scst.h
@@ -3737,12 +3737,6 @@ static inline void sg_set_page(struct scatterlist *sg, struct page *page,
 	sg->length = len;
 }
 
-static inline struct scatterlist *sg_next(struct scatterlist *sg)
-{
-	sg++;
-	return sg;
-}
-
 #ifndef for_each_sg
 /* See also commit 96b418c960af0d5c7185ff5c4af9376eb37ac9d3 */
 #define for_each_sg(sglist, sg, nr, __i)       \
diff --git a/scst/src/scst_lib.c b/scst/src/scst_lib.c
index fd34772de..e04dbd1fb 100644
--- a/scst/src/scst_lib.c
+++ b/scst/src/scst_lib.c
@@ -5768,7 +5768,7 @@ static int sg_copy_elem(struct scatterlist **pdst_sg, size_t *pdst_len,
 		src_len -= n;
 		dst_len -= n;
 		if (dst_len == 0) {
-			dst_sg = sg_next(dst_sg);
+			dst_sg = sg_next_inline(dst_sg);
 			if (dst_sg == NULL)
 				goto out;
 			dst_page = sg_page(dst_sg);
@@ -5834,7 +5834,7 @@ static int sg_copy(struct scatterlist *dst_sg, struct scatterlist *src_sg,
 		if (nents_to_copy == 0)
 			goto out;
 
-		src_sg = sg_next(src_sg);
+		src_sg = sg_next_inline(src_sg);
 	} while (src_sg != NULL);
 
 out:
diff --git a/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c b/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c
index a5e0affd2..553a355ff 100644
--- a/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c
+++ b/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c
@@ -3001,7 +3001,7 @@ static int srpt_map_sg_to_ib_sge(struct srpt_rdma_ch *ch,
 				if (tsize > 0) {
 					++j;
 					if (j < count) {
-						cur_sg = sg_next(cur_sg);
+						cur_sg = sg_next_inline(cur_sg);
 						dma_len = sg_dma_len(cur_sg);
 					}
 				}
@@ -3056,7 +3056,7 @@ static int srpt_map_sg_to_ib_sge(struct srpt_rdma_ch *ch,
 				if (tsize > 0) {
 					++j;
 					if (j < count) {
-						cur_sg = sg_next(cur_sg);
+						cur_sg = sg_next_inline(cur_sg);
 						dma_len = sg_dma_len(cur_sg);
 						dma_addr =
 						    sg_dma_address(cur_sg);