diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/command_submission.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/command_submission.c
index c7757c78d0b1..d93ef9f1c45c 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/command_submission.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/command_submission.c
@@ -921,18 +921,21 @@ static void cs_rollback(struct hl_device *hdev, struct hl_cs *cs)
 		complete_job(hdev, job);
 }
 
-void hl_cs_rollback_all(struct hl_device *hdev)
+void hl_cs_rollback_all(struct hl_device *hdev, bool skip_wq_flush)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct hl_cs *cs, *tmp;
 
-	flush_workqueue(hdev->ts_free_obj_wq);
+	if (!skip_wq_flush) {
+		flush_workqueue(hdev->ts_free_obj_wq);
 
-	/* flush all completions before iterating over the CS mirror list in
-	 * order to avoid a race with the release functions
-	 */
-	for (i = 0 ; i < hdev->asic_prop.completion_queues_count ; i++)
-		flush_workqueue(hdev->cq_wq[i]);
+		/* flush all completions before iterating over the CS mirror list in
+		 * order to avoid a race with the release functions
+		 */
+		for (i = 0 ; i < hdev->asic_prop.completion_queues_count ; i++)
+			flush_workqueue(hdev->cq_wq[i]);
+
+	}
 
 	/* Make sure we don't have leftovers in the CS mirror list */
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(cs, tmp, &hdev->cs_mirror_list, mirror_node) {
diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/device.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/device.c
index 8ea9dfe3f79b..d52381d1fbd2 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/device.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/device.c
@@ -685,7 +685,8 @@ static void take_release_locks(struct hl_device *hdev)
 	mutex_unlock(&hdev->fpriv_ctrl_list_lock);
 }
 
-static void cleanup_resources(struct hl_device *hdev, bool hard_reset, bool fw_reset)
+static void cleanup_resources(struct hl_device *hdev, bool hard_reset, bool fw_reset,
+				bool skip_wq_flush)
 {
 	if (hard_reset)
 		device_late_fini(hdev);
@@ -698,7 +699,7 @@ static void cleanup_resources(struct hl_device *hdev, bool hard_reset, bool fw_r
 	hdev->asic_funcs->halt_engines(hdev, hard_reset, fw_reset);
 
 	/* Go over all the queues, release all CS and their jobs */
-	hl_cs_rollback_all(hdev);
+	hl_cs_rollback_all(hdev, skip_wq_flush);
 
 	/* Release all pending user interrupts, each pending user interrupt
 	 * holds a reference to user context
@@ -978,7 +979,8 @@ static void handle_reset_trigger(struct hl_device *hdev, u32 flags)
 int hl_device_reset(struct hl_device *hdev, u32 flags)
 {
 	bool hard_reset, from_hard_reset_thread, fw_reset, hard_instead_soft = false,
-			reset_upon_device_release = false, schedule_hard_reset = false;
+			reset_upon_device_release = false, schedule_hard_reset = false,
+			skip_wq_flush = false;
 	u64 idle_mask[HL_BUSY_ENGINES_MASK_EXT_SIZE] = {0};
 	struct hl_ctx *ctx;
 	int i, rc;
@@ -991,6 +993,7 @@ int hl_device_reset(struct hl_device *hdev, u32 flags)
 	hard_reset = !!(flags & HL_DRV_RESET_HARD);
 	from_hard_reset_thread = !!(flags & HL_DRV_RESET_FROM_RESET_THR);
 	fw_reset = !!(flags & HL_DRV_RESET_BYPASS_REQ_TO_FW);
+	skip_wq_flush = !!(flags & HL_DRV_RESET_DEV_RELEASE);
 
 	if (!hard_reset && !hdev->asic_prop.supports_soft_reset) {
 		hard_instead_soft = true;
@@ -1076,7 +1079,7 @@ again:
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	cleanup_resources(hdev, hard_reset, fw_reset);
+	cleanup_resources(hdev, hard_reset, fw_reset, skip_wq_flush);
 
 kill_processes:
 	if (hard_reset) {
@@ -1686,7 +1689,7 @@ void hl_device_fini(struct hl_device *hdev)
 
 	hl_hwmon_fini(hdev);
 
-	cleanup_resources(hdev, true, false);
+	cleanup_resources(hdev, true, false, false);
 
 	/* Kill processes here after CS rollback. This is because the process
 	 * can't really exit until all its CSs are done, which is what we
diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/habanalabs.h b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/habanalabs.h
index 677ae4ff922c..cef4717d0916 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/habanalabs.h
+++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/habanalabs.h
@@ -3054,7 +3054,7 @@ int hl_cb_pool_fini(struct hl_device *hdev);
 int hl_cb_va_pool_init(struct hl_ctx *ctx);
 void hl_cb_va_pool_fini(struct hl_ctx *ctx);
 
-void hl_cs_rollback_all(struct hl_device *hdev);
+void hl_cs_rollback_all(struct hl_device *hdev, bool skip_wq_flush);
 struct hl_cs_job *hl_cs_allocate_job(struct hl_device *hdev,
 		enum hl_queue_type queue_type, bool is_kernel_allocated_cb);
 void hl_sob_reset_error(struct kref *ref);