diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-core.c b/drivers/leds/led-core.c
index e9ae7f87ab900b37b9109e5dffd69db60a378b68..e3da7c03da1b5a1b627fe49110961e6909cac2bc 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-core.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-core.c
@@ -164,11 +164,6 @@ static void led_blink_setup(struct led_classdev *led_cdev,
 		     unsigned long *delay_on,
 		     unsigned long *delay_off)
 {
-	/*
-	 * If "set brightness to 0" is pending in workqueue, we don't
-	 * want that to be reordered after blink_set()
-	 */
-	flush_work(&led_cdev->set_brightness_work);
 	if (!test_bit(LED_BLINK_ONESHOT, &led_cdev->work_flags) &&
 	    led_cdev->blink_set &&
 	    !led_cdev->blink_set(led_cdev, delay_on, delay_off))
diff --git a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c
index ca898c1383beedbcb1b7250a20390e8a3144f913..427fc3c303d5a78ed4dbff5efcb458055e6e7a29 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ static int timer_trig_activate(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
 		led_cdev->flags &= ~LED_INIT_DEFAULT_TRIGGER;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If "set brightness to 0" is pending in workqueue, we don't
+	 * want that to be reordered after blink_set()
+	 */
+	flush_work(&led_cdev->set_brightness_work);
 	led_blink_set(led_cdev, &led_cdev->blink_delay_on,
 		      &led_cdev->blink_delay_off);