diff --git a/service-t/native/libs/libnetworkstats/NetworkTracePoller.cpp b/service-t/native/libs/libnetworkstats/NetworkTracePoller.cpp
index 3abb49a..5cf6262 100644
--- a/service-t/native/libs/libnetworkstats/NetworkTracePoller.cpp
+++ b/service-t/native/libs/libnetworkstats/NetworkTracePoller.cpp
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@
     ALOGW("Failed to disable tracing: %s", res.error().message().c_str());
   }
 
+  // make sure everything in the system has actually seen the 'false' we just wrote
+  synchronizeKernelRCU();
+  // things should now be well and truly disabled
+
   mTaskRunner.reset();
   mRingBuffer.reset();