diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index 8fb9de4f4875..9b1d81c26b7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -551,9 +551,8 @@ from /dev).
 
 After video_unregister_device() returns no new opens can be done. However,
 in the case of USB devices some application might still have one of these
-device nodes open. So after the unregister all file operations will return
-an error as well, except for the ioctl and unlocked_ioctl file operations:
-those will still be passed on since some buffer ioctls may still be needed.
+device nodes open. So after the unregister all file operations (except
+release, of course) will return an error as well.
 
 When the last user of the video device node exits, then the vdev->release()
 callback is called and you can do the final cleanup there.
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
index d4a353260c1e..f069c61cdf68 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
@@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ static long v4l2_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	struct video_device *vdev = video_devdata(filp);
 	int ret;
 
-	/* Allow ioctl to continue even if the device was unregistered.
-	   Things like dequeueing buffers might still be useful. */
+	if (!vdev->fops->ioctl)
+		return -ENOTTY;
 	if (vdev->fops->unlocked_ioctl) {
 		ret = vdev->fops->unlocked_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
 	} else if (vdev->fops->ioctl) {