diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 9f9dd1f4496f..9fa38e9829f4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -6879,6 +6879,10 @@ static int do_md_stop(struct mddev *mddev, int mode)
 		if (!md_is_rdwr(mddev))
 			set_disk_ro(disk, 0);
 
+		if (mode == 2 && mddev->pers->sync_request &&
+		    mddev->to_remove == NULL)
+			mddev->to_remove = &md_redundancy_group;
+
 		__md_stop_writes(mddev);
 		__md_stop(mddev);