diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 8d3972ea688b..c74bc402f8c7 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -2433,6 +2433,11 @@ rpc_check_timeout(struct rpc_task *task)
 {
 	struct rpc_clnt	*clnt = task->tk_client;
 
+	if (RPC_SIGNALLED(task)) {
+		rpc_call_rpcerror(task, -ERESTARTSYS);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (xprt_adjust_timeout(task->tk_rqstp) == 0)
 		return;