diff --git a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
index 02031fc07f7fe5717e8f8c5a72f3e72f312add3b..0978e52ffa42cf8aaeb5bfc32e6d03136e0f17db 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
@@ -375,10 +375,6 @@ int btrfs_dev_replace_start(struct btrfs_root *root,
 	WARN_ON(!tgt_device);
 	dev_replace->tgtdev = tgt_device;
 
-	ret = btrfs_sysfs_add_device_link(tgt_device->fs_devices, tgt_device);
-	if (ret)
-		btrfs_err(root->fs_info, "kobj add dev failed %d\n", ret);
-
 	printk_in_rcu(KERN_INFO
 		      "BTRFS: dev_replace from %s (devid %llu) to %s started\n",
 		      src_device->missing ? "<missing disk>" :
@@ -401,6 +397,10 @@ int btrfs_dev_replace_start(struct btrfs_root *root,
 	args->result = BTRFS_IOCTL_DEV_REPLACE_RESULT_NO_ERROR;
 	btrfs_dev_replace_unlock(dev_replace);
 
+	ret = btrfs_sysfs_add_device_link(tgt_device->fs_devices, tgt_device);
+	if (ret)
+		btrfs_err(root->fs_info, "kobj add dev failed %d\n", ret);
+
 	btrfs_wait_ordered_roots(root->fs_info, -1);
 
 	/* force writing the updated state information to disk */