diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 056606839f521edb12008dd6bc9e2b77a76b4b2f..a91d1cdad9d7e02a3d4ebeda496fc80669beae27 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -2752,7 +2752,8 @@ struct rpc_task *rpc_call_null_helper(struct rpc_clnt *clnt,
 		.rpc_op_cred = cred,
 		.callback_ops = (ops != NULL) ? ops : &rpc_default_ops,
 		.callback_data = data,
-		.flags = flags | RPC_TASK_SOFT | RPC_TASK_NULLCREDS,
+		.flags = flags | RPC_TASK_SOFT | RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN |
+			 RPC_TASK_NULLCREDS,
 	};
 
 	return rpc_run_task(&task_setup_data);
@@ -2815,8 +2816,7 @@ int rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt(struct rpc_clnt *clnt,
 		goto success;
 	}
 
-	task = rpc_call_null_helper(clnt, xprt, NULL,
-			RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN|RPC_TASK_ASYNC,
+	task = rpc_call_null_helper(clnt, xprt, NULL, RPC_TASK_ASYNC,
 			&rpc_cb_add_xprt_call_ops, data);
 
 	rpc_put_task(task);
@@ -2859,8 +2859,7 @@ int rpc_clnt_setup_test_and_add_xprt(struct rpc_clnt *clnt,
 		goto out_err;
 
 	/* Test the connection */
-	task = rpc_call_null_helper(clnt, xprt, NULL, RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN,
-				    NULL, NULL);
+	task = rpc_call_null_helper(clnt, xprt, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(task)) {
 		status = PTR_ERR(task);
 		goto out_err;