diff --git a/block/blk-zoned.c b/block/blk-zoned.c
index 60ba23d20580..aac5ae9292b6 100644
--- a/block/blk-zoned.c
+++ b/block/blk-zoned.c
@@ -1514,6 +1514,11 @@ static int disk_update_zone_resources(struct gendisk *disk,
 	unsigned int nr_seq_zones, nr_conv_zones;
 	unsigned int pool_size;
 	struct queue_limits lim;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	lim = queue_limits_start_update(q);
+
+	blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
 
 	disk->nr_zones = args->nr_zones;
 	disk->zone_capacity = args->zone_capacity;
@@ -1523,11 +1528,10 @@ static int disk_update_zone_resources(struct gendisk *disk,
 	if (nr_conv_zones >= disk->nr_zones) {
 		pr_warn("%s: Invalid number of conventional zones %u / %u\n",
 			disk->disk_name, nr_conv_zones, disk->nr_zones);
-		return -ENODEV;
+		ret = -ENODEV;
+		goto unfreeze;
 	}
 
-	lim = queue_limits_start_update(q);
-
 	/*
 	 * Some devices can advertize zone resource limits that are larger than
 	 * the number of sequential zones of the zoned block device, e.g. a
@@ -1564,7 +1568,15 @@ static int disk_update_zone_resources(struct gendisk *disk,
 	}
 
 commit:
-	return queue_limits_commit_update_frozen(q, &lim);
+	ret = queue_limits_commit_update(q, &lim);
+
+unfreeze:
+	if (ret)
+		disk_free_zone_resources(disk);
+
+	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int blk_revalidate_conv_zone(struct blk_zone *zone, unsigned int idx,
@@ -1785,19 +1797,14 @@ int blk_revalidate_disk_zones(struct gendisk *disk)
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Set the new disk zone parameters only once the queue is frozen and
-	 * all I/Os are completed.
-	 */
 	if (ret > 0)
-		ret = disk_update_zone_resources(disk, &args);
-	else
-		pr_warn("%s: failed to revalidate zones\n", disk->disk_name);
-	if (ret) {
-		blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
-		disk_free_zone_resources(disk);
-		blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q);
-	}
+		return disk_update_zone_resources(disk, &args);
+
+	pr_warn("%s: failed to revalidate zones\n", disk->disk_name);
+
+	blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
+	disk_free_zone_resources(disk);
+	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q);
 
 	return ret;
 }