diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
index db139133f708..1f28d1804e15 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
@@ -1583,12 +1583,6 @@ void target_submit_cmd(struct se_cmd *se_cmd, struct se_session *se_sess,
 	 */
 	core_alua_check_nonop_delay(se_cmd);
 
-	/*
-	 * Dispatch se_cmd descriptor to se_lun->lun_se_dev backend
-	 * for immediate execution of READs, otherwise wait for
-	 * transport_generic_handle_data() to be called for WRITEs
-	 * when fabric has filled the incoming buffer.
-	 */
 	transport_handle_cdb_direct(se_cmd);
 	return;
 }
@@ -1681,36 +1675,6 @@ int transport_generic_handle_cdb_map(
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(transport_generic_handle_cdb_map);
 
-/*	transport_generic_handle_data():
- *
- *
- */
-int transport_generic_handle_data(
-	struct se_cmd *cmd)
-{
-	/*
-	 * For the software fabric case, then we assume the nexus is being
-	 * failed/shutdown when signals are pending from the kthread context
-	 * caller, so we return a failure.  For the HW target mode case running
-	 * in interrupt code, the signal_pending() check is skipped.
-	 */
-	if (!in_interrupt() && signal_pending(current))
-		return -EPERM;
-	/*
-	 * If the received CDB has aleady been ABORTED by the generic
-	 * target engine, we now call transport_check_aborted_status()
-	 * to queue any delated TASK_ABORTED status for the received CDB to the
-	 * fabric module as we are expecting no further incoming DATA OUT
-	 * sequences at this point.
-	 */
-	if (transport_check_aborted_status(cmd, 1) != 0)
-		return 0;
-
-	transport_add_cmd_to_queue(cmd, TRANSPORT_PROCESS_WRITE, false);
-	return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(transport_generic_handle_data);
-
 /*	transport_generic_handle_tmr():
  *
  *
@@ -3295,9 +3259,6 @@ static int transport_processing_thread(void *param)
 				break;
 			}
 			break;
-		case TRANSPORT_PROCESS_WRITE:
-			target_execute_cmd(cmd);
-			break;
 		case TRANSPORT_PROCESS_TMR:
 			transport_generic_do_tmr(cmd);
 			break;
diff --git a/include/target/target_core_base.h b/include/target/target_core_base.h
index 1ae97fe93d2f..72a41dda9496 100644
--- a/include/target/target_core_base.h
+++ b/include/target/target_core_base.h
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ enum transport_state_table {
 	TRANSPORT_NO_STATE	= 0,
 	TRANSPORT_NEW_CMD	= 1,
 	TRANSPORT_WRITE_PENDING	= 3,
-	TRANSPORT_PROCESS_WRITE	= 4,
 	TRANSPORT_PROCESSING	= 5,
 	TRANSPORT_COMPLETE	= 6,
 	TRANSPORT_PROCESS_TMR	= 9,
diff --git a/include/target/target_core_fabric.h b/include/target/target_core_fabric.h
index 59b4afb83ae1..69321bc87c43 100644
--- a/include/target/target_core_fabric.h
+++ b/include/target/target_core_fabric.h
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ int	target_submit_tmr(struct se_cmd *se_cmd, struct se_session *se_sess,
 		gfp_t, unsigned int, int);
 int	transport_handle_cdb_direct(struct se_cmd *);
 int	transport_generic_handle_cdb_map(struct se_cmd *);
-int	transport_generic_handle_data(struct se_cmd *);
 int	transport_generic_map_mem_to_cmd(struct se_cmd *cmd,
 		struct scatterlist *, u32, struct scatterlist *, u32);
 int	transport_generic_new_cmd(struct se_cmd *);