diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 6eaf2b0ad7cc..aefdf07bdc2c 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -864,7 +864,16 @@ int bio_poll(struct bio *bio, struct io_comp_batch *iob, unsigned int flags)
 	 */
 	blk_flush_plug(current->plug, false);
 
-	if (bio_queue_enter(bio))
+	/*
+	 * We need to be able to enter a frozen queue, similar to how
+	 * timeouts also need to do that. If that is blocked, then we can
+	 * have pending IO when a queue freeze is started, and then the
+	 * wait for the freeze to finish will wait for polled requests to
+	 * timeout as the poller is preventer from entering the queue and
+	 * completing them. As long as we prevent new IO from being queued,
+	 * that should be all that matters.
+	 */
+	if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter))
 		return 0;
 	if (queue_is_mq(q)) {
 		ret = blk_mq_poll(q, cookie, iob, flags);