diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index f091a60dcf1e..22f899615801 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -432,10 +432,6 @@ int device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk,
 		disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT;
 	}
 
-	ret = disk_alloc_events(disk);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out_free_ext_minor;
-
 	/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
 	dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
 
@@ -446,7 +442,12 @@ int device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk,
 		ddev->devt = MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor);
 	ret = device_add(ddev);
 	if (ret)
-		goto out_disk_release_events;
+		goto out_free_ext_minor;
+
+	ret = disk_alloc_events(disk);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_device_del;
+
 	if (!sysfs_deprecated) {
 		ret = sysfs_create_link(block_depr, &ddev->kobj,
 					kobject_name(&ddev->kobj));
@@ -534,8 +535,6 @@ out_del_block_link:
 		sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(ddev));
 out_device_del:
 	device_del(ddev);
-out_disk_release_events:
-	disk_release_events(disk);
 out_free_ext_minor:
 	if (disk->major == BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR)
 		blk_free_ext_minor(disk->first_minor);