diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
index ed5146d7a6..49c7dd788a 100644
--- a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
+++ b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
@@ -392,17 +392,11 @@ int virtio_send_data_iov(struct fuse_session *se, struct fuse_chan *ch,
     unsigned int in_sg_cpy_count = in_num;
 
     /* skip over parts of in_sg that contained the header iov */
-    size_t skip_size = iov_len;
+    iov_discard_front(&in_sg_ptr, &in_sg_cpy_count, iov_len);
 
     do {
-        if (skip_size != 0) {
-            iov_discard_front(&in_sg_ptr, &in_sg_cpy_count, skip_size);
-        }
-
-        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_DEBUG,
-                 "%s: after skip skip_size=%zd in_sg_cpy_count=%d "
-                 "len remaining=%zd\n", __func__, skip_size, in_sg_cpy_count,
-                 len);
+        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_DEBUG, "%s: in_sg_cpy_count=%d len remaining=%zd\n",
+                 __func__, in_sg_cpy_count, len);
 
         ret = preadv(buf->buf[0].fd, in_sg_ptr, in_sg_cpy_count,
                      buf->buf[0].pos);
@@ -421,7 +415,7 @@ int virtio_send_data_iov(struct fuse_session *se, struct fuse_chan *ch,
         if (ret < len && ret) {
             fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_DEBUG, "%s: ret < len\n", __func__);
             /* Skip over this much next time around */
-            skip_size = ret;
+            iov_discard_front(&in_sg_ptr, &in_sg_cpy_count, ret);
             buf->buf[0].pos += ret;
             len -= ret;