diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_spq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_spq.c
index be48d9abd0010ed88cb6c6161cbf4e7b81429710..3588081b2e274f2308eb795ca06632b9a5a442e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_spq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_spq.c
@@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ int qed_spq_post(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn,
 	int rc = 0;
 	struct qed_spq *p_spq = p_hwfn ? p_hwfn->p_spq : NULL;
 	bool b_ret_ent = true;
+	bool eblock;
 
 	if (!p_hwfn)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -794,6 +795,11 @@ int qed_spq_post(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn,
 	if (rc)
 		goto spq_post_fail;
 
+	/* Check if entry is in block mode before qed_spq_add_entry,
+	 * which might kfree p_ent.
+	 */
+	eblock = (p_ent->comp_mode == QED_SPQ_MODE_EBLOCK);
+
 	/* Add the request to the pending queue */
 	rc = qed_spq_add_entry(p_hwfn, p_ent, p_ent->priority);
 	if (rc)
@@ -811,7 +817,7 @@ int qed_spq_post(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn,
 
 	spin_unlock_bh(&p_spq->lock);
 
-	if (p_ent->comp_mode == QED_SPQ_MODE_EBLOCK) {
+	if (eblock) {
 		/* For entries in QED BLOCK mode, the completion code cannot
 		 * perform the necessary cleanup - if it did, we couldn't
 		 * access p_ent here to see whether it's successful or not.