diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index c54aec87e89..53c5ea70279 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -840,15 +840,15 @@ static int btree_submit_bio_hook(struct inode *inode, int rw, struct bio *bio,
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = btrfs_bio_wq_end_io(BTRFS_I(inode)->root->fs_info,
-					  bio, 1);
-	BUG_ON(ret);
-
 	if (!(rw & REQ_WRITE)) {
+
 		/*
 		 * called for a read, do the setup so that checksum validation
 		 * can happen in the async kernel threads
 		 */
+		ret = btrfs_bio_wq_end_io(BTRFS_I(inode)->root->fs_info,
+					  bio, 1);
+		BUG_ON(ret);
 		return btrfs_map_bio(BTRFS_I(inode)->root, rw, bio,
 				     mirror_num, 0);
 	}