diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 260e36a2c343..d0cc6e14d2f0 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ bool blk_attempt_plug_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
 	struct request *rq;
 	struct list_head *plug_list;
 
-	plug = current->plug;
+	plug = blk_mq_plug(q, bio);
 	if (!plug)
 		return false;
 
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index e5ef40c603ca..b038ec680e84 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ static blk_qc_t blk_mq_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 
 	blk_mq_bio_to_request(rq, bio, nr_segs);
 
-	plug = current->plug;
+	plug = blk_mq_plug(q, bio);
 	if (unlikely(is_flush_fua)) {
 		/* bypass scheduler for flush rq */
 		blk_insert_flush(rq);
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.h b/block/blk-mq.h
index f4bf5161333e..32c62c64e6c2 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq.h
@@ -233,4 +233,36 @@ static inline void blk_mq_clear_mq_map(struct blk_mq_queue_map *qmap)
 		qmap->mq_map[cpu] = 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * blk_mq_plug() - Get caller context plug
+ * @q: request queue
+ * @bio : the bio being submitted by the caller context
+ *
+ * Plugging, by design, may delay the insertion of BIOs into the elevator in
+ * order to increase BIO merging opportunities. This however can cause BIO
+ * insertion order to change from the order in which submit_bio() is being
+ * executed in the case of multiple contexts concurrently issuing BIOs to a
+ * device, even if these context are synchronized to tightly control BIO issuing
+ * order. While this is not a problem with regular block devices, this ordering
+ * change can cause write BIO failures with zoned block devices as these
+ * require sequential write patterns to zones. Prevent this from happening by
+ * ignoring the plug state of a BIO issuing context if the target request queue
+ * is for a zoned block device and the BIO to plug is a write operation.
+ *
+ * Return current->plug if the bio can be plugged and NULL otherwise
+ */
+static inline struct blk_plug *blk_mq_plug(struct request_queue *q,
+					   struct bio *bio)
+{
+	/*
+	 * For regular block devices or read operations, use the context plug
+	 * which may be NULL if blk_start_plug() was not executed.
+	 */
+	if (!blk_queue_is_zoned(q) || !op_is_write(bio_op(bio)))
+		return current->plug;
+
+	/* Zoned block device write operation case: do not plug the BIO */
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 #endif