diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 641fd6e7880ebbbf8db1401a9a712e8bbd55a834..ccd5d5735be168ee7c1bbe0244d0beacecbecc4d 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -2716,6 +2716,7 @@ int rpc_clnt_add_xprt(struct rpc_clnt *clnt,
 	xprt = xprt_iter_xprt(&clnt->cl_xpi);
 	if (xps == NULL || xprt == NULL) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
+		xprt_switch_put(xps);
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 	resvport = xprt->resvport;