diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 13f5a6c..c207fa9 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -296,17 +296,29 @@
 	if (ret)
 		return ERR_PTR(ret);
 
+	/*
+	 * Check if the hardware context is actually mapped to anything.
+	 * If not tell the caller that it should skip this queue.
+	 */
 	hctx = q->queue_hw_ctx[hctx_idx];
+	if (!blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped(hctx)) {
+		ret = -EXDEV;
+		goto out_queue_exit;
+	}
 	ctx = __blk_mq_get_ctx(q, cpumask_first(hctx->cpumask));
 
 	blk_mq_set_alloc_data(&alloc_data, q, flags, ctx, hctx);
 	rq = __blk_mq_alloc_request(&alloc_data, rw, 0);
 	if (!rq) {
-		blk_queue_exit(q);
-		return ERR_PTR(-EWOULDBLOCK);
+		ret = -EWOULDBLOCK;
+		goto out_queue_exit;
 	}
 
 	return rq;
+
+out_queue_exit:
+	blk_queue_exit(q);
+	return ERR_PTR(ret);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx);