diff --git a/tests/test-runner/bin/zts-report.py b/tests/test-runner/bin/zts-report.py
index 6f4c97e535..2cf2eb9412 100755
--- a/tests/test-runner/bin/zts-report.py
+++ b/tests/test-runner/bin/zts-report.py
@@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ maybe = {
     'no_space/enospc_002_pos': ['FAIL', enospc_reason],
     'projectquota/setup': ['SKIP', exec_reason],
     'redundancy/redundancy_004_neg': ['FAIL', '7290'],
-    'removal/removal_resume_export': ['FAIL', '7894'],
     'reservation/reservation_008_pos': ['FAIL', '7741'],
     'reservation/reservation_018_pos': ['FAIL', '5642'],
     'rsend/rsend_019_pos': ['FAIL', '6086'],
diff --git a/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_resume_export.ksh b/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_resume_export.ksh
index 2c69c591af..4f1e63cd06 100755
--- a/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_resume_export.ksh
+++ b/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_resume_export.ksh
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@
 # 3. Inject a fault in the pool and attempt to export (it
 #    should fail).
 # 4. After the export fails ensure that the removal thread
-#    was restarted (i.e. the svr_thread field in the spa
-#    should be non-zero).
+#    was restarted and the process complete successfully.
 #
 
 
@@ -48,34 +47,9 @@ function cleanup
 	default_cleanup_noexit
 }
 
-function ensure_thread_running # spa_address
+function callback
 {
-	if is_linux; then
-		typeset TRIES=0
-		typeset THREAD_PID
-		while [[ $TRIES -lt 50 ]]; do
-			THREAD_PID=$(pgrep spa_vdev_remove)
-			[[ "$THREAD_PID" ]] && break
-			sleep 0.1
-			(( TRIES = TRIES + 1 ))
-		done
-		[[ "$THREAD_PID" ]] || \
-		    log_fail "removal thread is not running TRIES=$TRIES THREAD_PID=$THREAD_PID"
-	else
-		#
-		# Try to get the address of the removal thread.
-		#
-		typeset THREAD_ADDR=$(mdb -ke "$1::print \
-		    spa_t spa_vdev_removal->svr_thread" | awk "{print \$3}")
-
-		#
-		# if address is NULL it means that the thread is
-		# not running.
-		#
-		[[ "$THREAD_ADDR" = 0 ]] && \
-		    log_fail "removal thread is not running"
-	fi
-
+	log_mustnot zpool export $TESTPOOL
 	return 0
 }
 
@@ -86,12 +60,6 @@ log_onexit cleanup
 #
 log_must default_setup_noexit "$REMOVEDISK"
 
-#
-# Save address of SPA in memory so you can check with mdb
-# if the removal thread is running.
-#
-is_linux || typeset SPA_ADDR=$(mdb -ke "::spa" | awk "/$TESTPOOL/ {print \$1}")
-
 #
 # Turn off compression to raise capacity as much as possible
 # for the little time that this test runs.
@@ -109,26 +77,15 @@ log_must dd if=/dev/urandom of=$TESTDIR/$TESTFILE0 bs=64M count=32
 #
 log_must zpool add -f $TESTPOOL $NOTREMOVEDISK
 
-#
-# Start removal.
-#
-log_must zpool remove $TESTPOOL $REMOVEDISK
-
 #
 # Inject an error so export fails after having just suspended
 # the removal thread. [spa_inject_ref gets incremented]
 #
 log_must zinject -d $REMOVEDISK -D 10:1 $TESTPOOL
 
-log_must ensure_thread_running $SPA_ADDR
-
 #
 # Because of the above error export should fail.
 #
-log_mustnot zpool export $TESTPOOL
-
-log_must ensure_thread_running $SPA_ADDR
-
-wait_for_removal $TESTPOOL
+log_must attempt_during_removal $TESTPOOL $REMOVEDISK callback
 
 log_pass "Device removal thread resumes after failed export"