diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 89c47f4ee00..b644b9c164a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2656,8 +2656,8 @@ static void ext4_end_io_dio(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei->i_completed_io_lock, flags);
 
 	/* queue the work to convert unwritten extents to written */
-	queue_work(wq, &io_end->work);
 	iocb->private = NULL;
+	queue_work(wq, &io_end->work);
 
 	/* XXX: probably should move into the real I/O completion handler */
 	inode_dio_done(inode);