diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index e0675772178b..278227ba1d53 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -623,6 +623,7 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	 * Prevent new I/O from crossing bio_queue_enter().
 	 */
 	blk_queue_start_drain(q);
+	blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait(q);
 
 	if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) {
 		sysfs_remove_link(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "bdi");
@@ -646,8 +647,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(disk_to_dev(disk), false);
 	device_del(disk_to_dev(disk));
 
-	blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait(q);
-
 	blk_throtl_cancel_bios(disk->queue);
 
 	blk_sync_queue(q);