diff --git a/src/basic/iovec-util.c b/src/basic/iovec-util.c
index 11aa630ae6a..991889a14eb 100644
--- a/src/basic/iovec-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/iovec-util.c
@@ -3,24 +3,24 @@
 #include "iovec-util.h"
 #include "string-util.h"
 
-size_t iovec_total_size(const struct iovec *i, size_t n) {
+size_t iovec_total_size(const struct iovec *iovec, size_t n) {
         size_t sum = 0;
 
-        assert(i || n == 0);
+        assert(iovec || n == 0);
 
-        FOREACH_ARRAY(j, i, n)
+        FOREACH_ARRAY(j, iovec, n)
                 sum += j->iov_len;
 
         return sum;
 }
 
-bool iovec_increment(struct iovec *i, size_t n, size_t k) {
-        assert(i || n == 0);
+bool iovec_increment(struct iovec *iovec, size_t n, size_t k) {
+        assert(iovec || n == 0);
 
         /* Returns true if there is nothing else to send (bytes written cover all of the iovec),
          * false if there's still work to do. */
 
-        FOREACH_ARRAY(j, i, n) {
+        FOREACH_ARRAY(j, iovec, n) {
                 size_t sub;
 
                 if (j->iov_len == 0)
@@ -62,12 +62,9 @@ char* set_iovec_string_field_free(struct iovec *iovec, size_t *n_iovec, const ch
         return x;
 }
 
-void iovec_array_free(struct iovec *iov, size_t n) {
-        if (!iov)
-                return;
+void iovec_array_free(struct iovec *iovec, size_t n) {
+        FOREACH_ARRAY(i, iovec, n)
+                free(i->iov_base);
 
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++)
-                free(iov[i].iov_base);
-
-        free(iov);
+        free(iovec);
 }
diff --git a/src/basic/iovec-util.h b/src/basic/iovec-util.h
index 1f652a0ede6..39feabd4260 100644
--- a/src/basic/iovec-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/iovec-util.h
@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@
 #include "alloc-util.h"
 #include "macro.h"
 
-size_t iovec_total_size(const struct iovec *i, size_t n);
+size_t iovec_total_size(const struct iovec *iovec, size_t n);
 
-bool iovec_increment(struct iovec *i, size_t n, size_t k);
-
-#define IOVEC_NULL (const struct iovec) {}
+bool iovec_increment(struct iovec *iovec, size_t n, size_t k);
 
 #define IOVEC_MAKE(base, len) (struct iovec) { .iov_base = (base), .iov_len = (len) }
 #define IOVEC_MAKE_STRING(string)                       \
@@ -21,8 +19,6 @@ bool iovec_increment(struct iovec *i, size_t n, size_t k);
                 IOVEC_MAKE((char*) _s, strlen(_s));     \
         })
 
-#define TAKE_IOVEC(p) TAKE_GENERIC((p), struct iovec, IOVEC_NULL)
-
 static inline void iovec_done(struct iovec *iovec) {
         /* A _cleanup_() helper that frees the iov_base in the iovec */
         assert(iovec);
@@ -38,11 +34,11 @@ static inline void iovec_done_erase(struct iovec *iovec) {
         iovec->iov_len = 0;
 }
 
-static inline bool iovec_is_set(const struct iovec *iov) {
-        return iov && iov->iov_len > 0 && iov->iov_base;
+static inline bool iovec_is_set(const struct iovec *iovec) {
+        return iovec && iovec->iov_len > 0 && iovec->iov_base;
 }
 
 char* set_iovec_string_field(struct iovec *iovec, size_t *n_iovec, const char *field, const char *value);
 char* set_iovec_string_field_free(struct iovec *iovec, size_t *n_iovec, const char *field, char *value);
 
-void iovec_array_free(struct iovec *iov, size_t n);
+void iovec_array_free(struct iovec *iovec, size_t n);
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-send.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-send.c
index 1ca721e6c94..be23b2fe75d 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-send.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-send.c
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ _public_ int sd_journal_send_with_location(const char *file, const char *line, c
 
         r = sd_journal_sendv(iov, n_iov);
 
-        iov[0] = iov[1] = iov[2] = IOVEC_NULL;
+        iov[0] = iov[1] = iov[2] = (struct iovec) {};
 
         return r;
 }
diff --git a/src/partition/repart.c b/src/partition/repart.c
index 4e57f977266..9109ea18237 100644
--- a/src/partition/repart.c
+++ b/src/partition/repart.c
@@ -4087,7 +4087,7 @@ static int partition_format_verity_hash(
                 p->new_uuid_is_set = true;
         }
 
-        p->roothash = TAKE_IOVEC(rh);
+        p->roothash = TAKE_STRUCT(rh);
 
         return 0;
 #else
@@ -4139,7 +4139,7 @@ static int sign_verity_roothash(
 
 static int partition_format_verity_sig(Context *context, Partition *p) {
         _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *v = NULL;
-        _cleanup_(iovec_done) struct iovec sig = IOVEC_NULL;
+        _cleanup_(iovec_done) struct iovec sig = {};
         _cleanup_free_ char *text = NULL, *hint = NULL;
         Partition *hp;
         uint8_t fp[X509_FINGERPRINT_SIZE];