diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
index d2a1ea98d0f23a144653ed7fceefeb62a2191e75..fd356b7c0476effaa6ae99dce025e9b7178e6225 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
@@ -426,10 +426,14 @@ void rt2x00lib_txdone(struct queue_entry *entry,
 	/*
 	 * If the data queue was below the threshold before the txdone
 	 * handler we must make sure the packet queue in the mac80211 stack
-	 * is reenabled when the txdone handler has finished.
+	 * is reenabled when the txdone handler has finished. This has to be
+	 * serialized with rt2x00mac_tx(), otherwise we can wake up queue
+	 * before it was stopped.
 	 */
+	spin_lock_bh(&entry->queue->tx_lock);
 	if (!rt2x00queue_threshold(entry->queue))
 		rt2x00queue_unpause_queue(entry->queue);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&entry->queue->tx_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rt2x00lib_txdone);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
index ede3c58e67836e1800662b2c5399e82e85b59442..2df2eb6d3e06bf892d7a52eb9cbd1dd13f5e7c95 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
@@ -152,13 +152,22 @@ void rt2x00mac_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (unlikely(rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(queue, skb, false)))
 		goto exit_fail;
 
+	/*
+	 * Pausing queue has to be serialized with rt2x00lib_txdone(). Note
+	 * we should not use spin_lock_bh variant as bottom halve was already
+	 * disabled before ieee80211_xmit() call.
+	 */
+	spin_lock(&queue->tx_lock);
 	if (rt2x00queue_threshold(queue))
 		rt2x00queue_pause_queue(queue);
+	spin_unlock(&queue->tx_lock);
 
 	return;
 
  exit_fail:
+	spin_lock(&queue->tx_lock);
 	rt2x00queue_pause_queue(queue);
+	spin_unlock(&queue->tx_lock);
  exit_free_skb:
 	ieee80211_free_txskb(hw, skb);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
index 5adfb3eab9cda4c07465fa4ec3ad404e2baba212..9b1b2b7a7807226717a6a1b463cdf9fdc7a70f2e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
@@ -619,6 +619,9 @@ int rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(struct data_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	else if (test_bit(REQUIRE_DMA, &queue->rt2x00dev->cap_flags))
 		rt2x00queue_align_frame(skb);
 
+	/*
+	 * That function must be called with bh disabled.
+	 */
 	spin_lock(&queue->tx_lock);
 
 	if (unlikely(rt2x00queue_full(queue))) {