diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index e5cafa51567c..1a971bebbbfe 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -664,7 +664,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 
 	kobject_put(disk->part0.holder_dir);
 	kobject_put(disk->slave_dir);
-	disk->driverfs_dev = NULL;
 	if (!sysfs_deprecated)
 		sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(disk_to_dev(disk)));
 	pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(disk_to_dev(disk), false);