1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 4b76ef9336c7..97931d9f8579 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void	call_connect_status(struct rpc_task *task);
 
 static __be32   *rpc_encode_header(struct rpc_task *task);
 static __be32   *rpc_verify_header(struct rpc_task *task);
-static int      rpc_ping(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, int flags);
+static int      rpc_ping(struct rpc_clnt *clnt);
 
 static void rpc_register_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
 {
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ struct rpc_clnt *rpc_create(struct rpc_create_args *args)
                 return clnt;
 
         if (!(args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_NOPING)) {
-                int err = rpc_ping(clnt, RPC_TASK_SOFT);
+                int err = rpc_ping(clnt);
                 if (err != 0) {
                         rpc_shutdown_client(clnt);
                         return ERR_PTR(err);
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ struct rpc_clnt *rpc_bind_new_program(struct rpc_clnt *old,
         clnt->cl_prog     = program->number;
         clnt->cl_vers     = version->number;
         clnt->cl_stats    = program->stats;
-        err = rpc_ping(clnt, RPC_TASK_SOFT);
+        err = rpc_ping(clnt);
         if (err != 0) {
                 rpc_shutdown_client(clnt);
                 clnt = ERR_PTR(err);
@@ -1709,14 +1709,14 @@ static struct rpc_procinfo rpcproc_null = {
         .p_decode = rpcproc_decode_null,
 };
 
-static int rpc_ping(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, int flags)
+static int rpc_ping(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
 {
         struct rpc_message msg = {
                 .rpc_proc = &rpcproc_null,
         };
         int err;
         msg.rpc_cred = authnull_ops.lookup_cred(NULL, NULL, 0);
-        err = rpc_call_sync(clnt, &msg, flags);
+        err = rpc_call_sync(clnt, &msg, RPC_TASK_SOFT | RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN);
         put_rpccred(msg.rpc_cred);
         return err;
 }