diff --git a/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/call.h b/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/call.h
index a40939f4d67f74e451e9af8e272fa1ce9181ba5a..f6eefb9f7ff7b748cab6689b29a501aa0dc50ff8 100644
--- a/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/call.h
+++ b/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/call.h
@@ -547,7 +547,10 @@ class CallOpClientRecvStatus {
 /// TODO(vjpai): Remove the existence of CallOpSetCollectionInterface
 /// and references to it. This code is deprecated-on-arrival and is
 /// only added for users that bypassed the code-generator.
-class CallOpSetCollectionInterface {};
+class CallOpSetCollectionInterface {
+ public:
+  virtual ~CallOpSetCollectionInterface() {}
+};
 
 /// An abstract collection of call ops, used to generate the
 /// grpc_call_op structure to pass down to the lower layers,
@@ -611,12 +614,13 @@ class CallOpSet : public CallOpSetInterface,
     this->Op6::FinishOp(status);
     *tag = return_tag_;
 
-    g_core_codegen_interface->grpc_call_unref(call_);
-
     // TODO(vjpai): Remove the reference to collection_ once the idea of
     // bypassing the code generator is forbidden. It is already deprecated
+    grpc_call* call = call_;
     collection_.reset();
 
+    g_core_codegen_interface->grpc_call_unref(call);
+
     return true;
   }