diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index f740cb51802a..7ede1e52fd81 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1888,7 +1888,9 @@ void sunrpc_cache_unhash(struct cache_detail *cd, struct cache_head *h)
 	if (!hlist_unhashed(&h->cache_list)){
 		hlist_del_init_rcu(&h->cache_list);
 		cd->entries--;
+		set_bit(CACHE_CLEANED, &h->flags);
 		spin_unlock(&cd->hash_lock);
+		cache_fresh_unlocked(h, cd);
 		cache_put(h, cd);
 	} else
 		spin_unlock(&cd->hash_lock);