diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 3cd57825c75f763aa91501c8b342b9f89b7a78cf..6e953de83f08e35d363eaf08466e3ef89449ff64 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -2025,9 +2025,16 @@ int repair_io_failure(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 length, u64 logical,
 	bio->bi_iter.bi_size = 0;
 	map_length = length;
 
+	/*
+	 * Avoid races with device replace and make sure our bbio has devices
+	 * associated to its stripes that don't go away while we are doing the
+	 * read repair operation.
+	 */
+	btrfs_bio_counter_inc_blocked(fs_info);
 	ret = btrfs_map_block(fs_info, WRITE, logical,
 			      &map_length, &bbio, mirror_num);
 	if (ret) {
+		btrfs_bio_counter_dec(fs_info);
 		bio_put(bio);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
@@ -2037,6 +2044,7 @@ int repair_io_failure(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 length, u64 logical,
 	dev = bbio->stripes[mirror_num-1].dev;
 	btrfs_put_bbio(bbio);
 	if (!dev || !dev->bdev || !dev->writeable) {
+		btrfs_bio_counter_dec(fs_info);
 		bio_put(bio);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
@@ -2045,6 +2053,7 @@ int repair_io_failure(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 length, u64 logical,
 
 	if (btrfsic_submit_bio_wait(WRITE_SYNC, bio)) {
 		/* try to remap that extent elsewhere? */
+		btrfs_bio_counter_dec(fs_info);
 		bio_put(bio);
 		btrfs_dev_stat_inc_and_print(dev, BTRFS_DEV_STAT_WRITE_ERRS);
 		return -EIO;
@@ -2054,6 +2063,7 @@ int repair_io_failure(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 length, u64 logical,
 		"read error corrected: ino %llu off %llu (dev %s sector %llu)",
 				  btrfs_ino(inode), start,
 				  rcu_str_deref(dev->name), sector);
+	btrfs_bio_counter_dec(fs_info);
 	bio_put(bio);
 	return 0;
 }