diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 35031c8b2d02..5601dda1bc40 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -2283,17 +2283,6 @@ schedule_reconstruction(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s,
 	int level = conf->level;
 
 	if (rcw) {
-		/* if we are not expanding this is a proper write request, and
-		 * there will be bios with new data to be drained into the
-		 * stripe cache
-		 */
-		if (!expand) {
-			sh->reconstruct_state = reconstruct_state_drain_run;
-			set_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, &s->ops_request);
-		} else
-			sh->reconstruct_state = reconstruct_state_run;
-
-		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_RECONSTRUCT, &s->ops_request);
 
 		for (i = disks; i--; ) {
 			struct r5dev *dev = &sh->dev[i];
@@ -2306,6 +2295,21 @@ schedule_reconstruction(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s,
 				s->locked++;
 			}
 		}
+		/* if we are not expanding this is a proper write request, and
+		 * there will be bios with new data to be drained into the
+		 * stripe cache
+		 */
+		if (!expand) {
+			if (!s->locked)
+				/* False alarm, nothing to do */
+				return;
+			sh->reconstruct_state = reconstruct_state_drain_run;
+			set_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, &s->ops_request);
+		} else
+			sh->reconstruct_state = reconstruct_state_run;
+
+		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_RECONSTRUCT, &s->ops_request);
+
 		if (s->locked + conf->max_degraded == disks)
 			if (!test_and_set_bit(STRIPE_FULL_WRITE, &sh->state))
 				atomic_inc(&conf->pending_full_writes);
@@ -2314,11 +2318,6 @@ schedule_reconstruction(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s,
 		BUG_ON(!(test_bit(R5_UPTODATE, &sh->dev[pd_idx].flags) ||
 			test_bit(R5_Wantcompute, &sh->dev[pd_idx].flags)));
 
-		sh->reconstruct_state = reconstruct_state_prexor_drain_run;
-		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &s->ops_request);
-		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, &s->ops_request);
-		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_RECONSTRUCT, &s->ops_request);
-
 		for (i = disks; i--; ) {
 			struct r5dev *dev = &sh->dev[i];
 			if (i == pd_idx)
@@ -2333,6 +2332,13 @@ schedule_reconstruction(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s,
 				s->locked++;
 			}
 		}
+		if (!s->locked)
+			/* False alarm - nothing to do */
+			return;
+		sh->reconstruct_state = reconstruct_state_prexor_drain_run;
+		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &s->ops_request);
+		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, &s->ops_request);
+		set_bit(STRIPE_OP_RECONSTRUCT, &s->ops_request);
 	}
 
 	/* keep the parity disk(s) locked while asynchronous operations