struct nvme_completion *cqe = &nvmeq->cqes[idx];
        struct request *req;
 
-       if (unlikely(cqe->command_id >= nvmeq->q_depth)) {
-               dev_warn(nvmeq->dev->ctrl.device,
-                       "invalid id %d completed on queue %d\n",
-                       cqe->command_id, le16_to_cpu(cqe->sq_id));
-               return;
-       }
-
        /*
         * AEN requests are special as they don't time out and can
         * survive any kind of queue freeze and often don't respond to
        }
 
        req = blk_mq_tag_to_rq(nvme_queue_tagset(nvmeq), cqe->command_id);
+       if (unlikely(!req)) {
+               dev_warn(nvmeq->dev->ctrl.device,
+                       "invalid id %d completed on queue %d\n",
+                       cqe->command_id, le16_to_cpu(cqe->sq_id));
+               return;
+       }
+
        trace_nvme_sq(req, cqe->sq_head, nvmeq->sq_tail);
        if (!nvme_try_complete_req(req, cqe->status, cqe->result))
                nvme_pci_complete_rq(req);