diff --git a/man/systemd.socket.xml b/man/systemd.socket.xml
index 3531ffaa17..8dc7641dde 100644
--- a/man/systemd.socket.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.socket.xml
@@ -460,14 +460,10 @@
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>MaxConnections=</varname></term>
-        <listitem><para>The maximum number of connections to
-        simultaneously run services instances for, when
-        <option>Accept=yes</option> is set. If more concurrent
-        connections are coming in, they will be refused until at least
-        one existing connection is terminated. This setting has no
-        effect on sockets configured with
-        <option>Accept=no</option> or datagram sockets. Defaults to
-        64.</para></listitem>
+        <listitem><para>The maximum number of connections to simultaneously run services instances for, when
+        <option>Accept=yes</option> is set. If more concurrent connections are coming in, they will be refused
+        until at least one existing connection is terminated. This setting has no effect on sockets configured
+        with <option>Accept=no</option> or datagram sockets. Defaults to 64.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
@@ -475,7 +471,7 @@
         <listitem><para>The maximum number of connections for a service per source IP address (in case of
         IPv4/IPv6), per source CID (in case of <constant>AF_VSOCK</constant>), or source UID (in case of
         <constant>AF_UNIX</constant>). This is very similar to the <varname>MaxConnections=</varname>
-        directive above. Disabled by default.</para>
+        directive above. Defaults to 0, i.e. disabled.</para>
 
         <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v232"/>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/src/core/service.c b/src/core/service.c
index 61b2b9a955..21f8b47a0c 100644
--- a/src/core/service.c
+++ b/src/core/service.c
@@ -1405,8 +1405,8 @@ static int service_collect_fds(
 
                 UNIT_FOREACH_DEPENDENCY(u, UNIT(s), UNIT_ATOM_TRIGGERED_BY) {
                         _cleanup_free_ int *cfds = NULL;
-                        Socket *sock;
                         int cn_fds;
+                        Socket *sock;
 
                         sock = SOCKET(u);
                         if (!sock)
@@ -1422,18 +1422,8 @@ static int service_collect_fds(
                         if (!rfds) {
                                 rfds = TAKE_PTR(cfds);
                                 rn_socket_fds = cn_fds;
-                        } else {
-                                int *t;
-
-                                t = reallocarray(rfds, rn_socket_fds + cn_fds, sizeof(int));
-                                if (!t)
-                                        return -ENOMEM;
-
-                                memcpy(t + rn_socket_fds, cfds, cn_fds * sizeof(int));
-
-                                rfds = t;
-                                rn_socket_fds += cn_fds;
-                        }
+                        } else if (!GREEDY_REALLOC_APPEND(rfds, rn_socket_fds, cfds, cn_fds))
+                                return -ENOMEM;
 
                         r = strv_extend_n(&rfd_names, socket_fdname(sock), cn_fds);
                         if (r < 0)