diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index da392b50f73e..9c80f9f08149 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -1401,6 +1401,23 @@ static void nvme_disable_admin_queue(struct nvme_dev *dev, bool shutdown)
 	nvme_poll_irqdisable(nvmeq, -1);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Called only on a device that has been disabled and after all other threads
+ * that can check this device's completion queues have synced. This is the
+ * last chance for the driver to see a natural completion before
+ * nvme_cancel_request() terminates all incomplete requests.
+ */
+static void nvme_reap_pending_cqes(struct nvme_dev *dev)
+{
+	u16 start, end;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = dev->ctrl.queue_count - 1; i > 0; i--) {
+		nvme_process_cq(&dev->queues[i], &start, &end, -1);
+		nvme_complete_cqes(&dev->queues[i], start, end);
+	}
+}
+
 static int nvme_cmb_qdepth(struct nvme_dev *dev, int nr_io_queues,
 				int entry_size)
 {
@@ -2235,11 +2252,6 @@ static bool __nvme_disable_io_queues(struct nvme_dev *dev, u8 opcode)
 		if (timeout == 0)
 			return false;
 
-		/* handle any remaining CQEs */
-		if (opcode == nvme_admin_delete_cq &&
-		    !test_bit(NVMEQ_DELETE_ERROR, &nvmeq->flags))
-			nvme_poll_irqdisable(nvmeq, -1);
-
 		sent--;
 		if (nr_queues)
 			goto retry;
@@ -2428,6 +2440,7 @@ static void nvme_dev_disable(struct nvme_dev *dev, bool shutdown)
 	nvme_suspend_io_queues(dev);
 	nvme_suspend_queue(&dev->queues[0]);
 	nvme_pci_disable(dev);
+	nvme_reap_pending_cqes(dev);
 
 	blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter(&dev->tagset, nvme_cancel_request, &dev->ctrl);
 	blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter(&dev->admin_tagset, nvme_cancel_request, &dev->ctrl);