diff --git a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
index 55c15f31d00d..ee0989c7e3a9 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
@@ -603,17 +603,33 @@ static int btrfs_dev_replace_finishing(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 	}
 	btrfs_wait_ordered_roots(fs_info, U64_MAX, 0, (u64)-1);
 
-	trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0);
-	if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
-		mutex_unlock(&dev_replace->lock_finishing_cancel_unmount);
-		return PTR_ERR(trans);
-	}
-	ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);
-	WARN_ON(ret);
+	/*
+	 * We have to use this loop approach because at this point src_device
+	 * has to be available for transaction commit to complete, yet new
+	 * chunks shouldn't be allocated on the device.
+	 */
+	while (1) {
+		trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0);
+		if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
+			mutex_unlock(&dev_replace->lock_finishing_cancel_unmount);
+			return PTR_ERR(trans);
+		}
+		ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);
+		WARN_ON(ret);
+
+		/* Prevent write_all_supers() during the finishing procedure */
+		mutex_lock(&fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
+		/* Prevent new chunks being allocated on the source device */
+		mutex_lock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
+
+		if (!list_empty(&src_device->post_commit_list)) {
+			mutex_unlock(&fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
+			mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
+		} else {
+			break;
+		}
+	}
 
-	/* keep away write_all_supers() during the finishing procedure */
-	mutex_lock(&fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
-	mutex_lock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
 	down_write(&dev_replace->rwsem);
 	dev_replace->replace_state =
 		scrub_ret ? BTRFS_IOCTL_DEV_REPLACE_STATE_CANCELED
@@ -662,7 +678,6 @@ static int btrfs_dev_replace_finishing(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 	btrfs_device_set_disk_total_bytes(tgt_device,
 					  src_device->disk_total_bytes);
 	btrfs_device_set_bytes_used(tgt_device, src_device->bytes_used);
-	ASSERT(list_empty(&src_device->post_commit_list));
 	tgt_device->commit_total_bytes = src_device->commit_total_bytes;
 	tgt_device->commit_bytes_used = src_device->bytes_used;