diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
index 23f358cb7f49..256ee90c7446 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
@@ -609,6 +609,12 @@ void vmbus_reset_channel_cb(struct vmbus_channel *channel)
 	 * the former is accessing channel->inbound.ring_buffer, the latter
 	 * could be freeing the ring_buffer pages, so here we must stop it
 	 * first.
+	 *
+	 * vmbus_chan_sched() might call the netvsc driver callback function
+	 * that ends up scheduling NAPI work that accesses the ring buffer.
+	 * At this point, we have to ensure that any such work is completed
+	 * and that the channel ring buffer is no longer being accessed, cf.
+	 * the calls to napi_disable() in netvsc_device_remove().
 	 */
 	tasklet_disable(&channel->callback_event);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index ca68aa1df801..41f5cf0bb997 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -636,9 +636,12 @@ void netvsc_device_remove(struct hv_device *device)
 
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(net_device_ctx->nvdev, NULL);
 
-	/* And disassociate NAPI context from device */
-	for (i = 0; i < net_device->num_chn; i++)
+	/* Disable NAPI and disassociate its context from the device. */
+	for (i = 0; i < net_device->num_chn; i++) {
+		/* See also vmbus_reset_channel_cb(). */
+		napi_disable(&net_device->chan_table[i].napi);
 		netif_napi_del(&net_device->chan_table[i].napi);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * At this point, no one should be accessing net_device