diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
index 959b931b605358f796b69685762d894c1c510287..55b68582c5d91e8530fbbcc507b9afea4e1a25e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ void	svc_close_xprt(struct svc_xprt *xprt);
 void	svc_delete_xprt(struct svc_xprt *xprt);
 int	svc_port_is_privileged(struct sockaddr *sin);
 int	svc_print_xprts(char *buf, int maxlen);
-struct	svc_xprt *svc_find_xprt(struct svc_serv *, char *, int, int);
+struct	svc_xprt *svc_find_xprt(struct svc_serv *serv, const char *xcl_name,
+			const sa_family_t af, const unsigned short port);
 int	svc_xprt_names(struct svc_serv *serv, char *buf, int buflen);
 
 static inline void svc_xprt_get(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index e588df5d6b34292f63fcf1d9e43c8ae05eeecb17..c947c93dbc24a5732299fb289751a89cfdb2d4a1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -1033,7 +1033,13 @@ static struct svc_deferred_req *svc_deferred_dequeue(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
 	return dr;
 }
 
-/*
+/**
+ * svc_find_xprt - find an RPC transport instance
+ * @serv: pointer to svc_serv to search
+ * @xcl_name: C string containing transport's class name
+ * @af: Address family of transport's local address
+ * @port: transport's IP port number
+ *
  * Return the transport instance pointer for the endpoint accepting
  * connections/peer traffic from the specified transport class,
  * address family and port.
@@ -1042,14 +1048,14 @@ static struct svc_deferred_req *svc_deferred_dequeue(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
  * wild-card, and will result in matching the first transport in the
  * service's list that has a matching class name.
  */
-struct svc_xprt *svc_find_xprt(struct svc_serv *serv, char *xcl_name,
-			       int af, int port)
+struct svc_xprt *svc_find_xprt(struct svc_serv *serv, const char *xcl_name,
+			       const sa_family_t af, const unsigned short port)
 {
 	struct svc_xprt *xprt;
 	struct svc_xprt *found = NULL;
 
 	/* Sanity check the args */
-	if (!serv || !xcl_name)
+	if (serv == NULL || xcl_name == NULL)
 		return found;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&serv->sv_lock);
@@ -1058,7 +1064,7 @@ struct svc_xprt *svc_find_xprt(struct svc_serv *serv, char *xcl_name,
 			continue;
 		if (af != AF_UNSPEC && af != xprt->xpt_local.ss_family)
 			continue;
-		if (port && port != svc_xprt_local_port(xprt))
+		if (port != 0 && port != svc_xprt_local_port(xprt))
 			continue;
 		found = xprt;
 		svc_xprt_get(xprt);