diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
index ab88a46c1a27..803c390e1c35 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
@@ -823,7 +823,13 @@ resend:
 		/* For flock requests we immediatelly return without further
 		   delay and let caller deal with the rest, since rest of
 		   this function metadata processing makes no sense for flock
-		   requests anyway */
+		   requests anyway. But in case of problem during comms with
+		   Server (ETIMEDOUT) or any signal/kill attempt (EINTR), we
+		   can not rely on caller and this mainly for F_UNLCKs
+		   (explicits or automatically generated by Kernel to clean
+		   current FLocks upon exit) that can't be trashed */
+		if ((rc == -EINTR) || (rc == -ETIMEDOUT))
+			goto resend;
 		RETURN(rc);
 	}