diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 1bd3e531b0e09002a64f20244e05afc186875157..059f6ef1ad1898de24f8eb5614b7545c2fa4dcf1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1427,7 +1427,9 @@ static int c_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
 		seq_printf(m, "# expiry=%lld refcnt=%d flags=%lx\n",
 			   convert_to_wallclock(cp->expiry_time),
 			   kref_read(&cp->ref), cp->flags);
-	cache_get(cp);
+	if (!cache_get_rcu(cp))
+		return 0;
+
 	if (cache_check(cd, cp, NULL))
 		/* cache_check does a cache_put on failure */
 		seq_puts(m, "# ");