diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index e79e9f18d7c2..8b361e192e8a 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -82,7 +82,11 @@ struct request *blk_mq_sched_get_request(struct request_queue *q,
 	if (likely(!data->hctx))
 		data->hctx = blk_mq_map_queue(q, data->ctx->cpu);
 
-	if (e) {
+	/*
+	 * For a reserved tag, allocate a normal request since we might
+	 * have driver dependencies on the value of the internal tag.
+	 */
+	if (e && !(data->flags & BLK_MQ_REQ_RESERVED)) {
 		data->flags |= BLK_MQ_REQ_INTERNAL;
 
 		/*