diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
index f0716f6ce41fa..e6ddc83223df5 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
@@ -232,6 +232,14 @@ static blk_qc_t nvme_ns_head_make_request(struct request_queue *q,
 	blk_qc_t ret = BLK_QC_T_NONE;
 	int srcu_idx;
 
+	/*
+	 * The namespace might be going away and the bio might
+	 * be moved to a different queue via blk_steal_bios(),
+	 * so we need to use the bio_split pool from the original
+	 * queue to allocate the bvecs from.
+	 */
+	blk_queue_split(q, &bio);
+
 	srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&head->srcu);
 	ns = nvme_find_path(head);
 	if (likely(ns)) {