diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 75f26d2ec642..af0b51d1d43e 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -941,13 +941,6 @@ static inline void nvme_handle_cqe(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, u16 idx)
 	volatile struct nvme_completion *cqe = &nvmeq->cqes[idx];
 	struct request *req;
 
-	if (unlikely(cqe->command_id >= nvmeq->q_depth)) {
-		dev_warn(nvmeq->dev->ctrl.device,
-			"invalid id %d completed on queue %d\n",
-			cqe->command_id, le16_to_cpu(cqe->sq_id));
-		return;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * AEN requests are special as they don't time out and can
 	 * survive any kind of queue freeze and often don't respond to
@@ -962,6 +955,13 @@ static inline void nvme_handle_cqe(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, u16 idx)
 	}
 
 	req = blk_mq_tag_to_rq(nvme_queue_tagset(nvmeq), cqe->command_id);
+	if (unlikely(!req)) {
+		dev_warn(nvmeq->dev->ctrl.device,
+			"invalid id %d completed on queue %d\n",
+			cqe->command_id, le16_to_cpu(cqe->sq_id));
+		return;
+	}
+
 	trace_nvme_sq(req, cqe->sq_head, nvmeq->sq_tail);
 	nvme_end_request(req, cqe->status, cqe->result);
 }