ret = isert_check_pi_status(cmd, isert_cmd->rw.sig->sig_mr);
        isert_rdma_rw_ctx_destroy(isert_cmd, isert_conn);
 
-       if (ret)
-               transport_send_check_condition_and_sense(cmd, cmd->pi_err, 0);
-       else
-               isert_put_response(isert_conn->conn, isert_cmd->iscsi_cmd);
+       if (ret) {
+               /*
+                * transport_generic_request_failure() expects to have
+                * plus two references to handle queue-full, so re-add
+                * one here as target-core will have already dropped
+                * it after the first isert_put_datain() callback.
+                */
+               kref_get(&cmd->cmd_kref);
+               transport_generic_request_failure(cmd, cmd->pi_err);
+       } else {
+               /*
+                * XXX: isert_put_response() failure is not retried.
+                */
+               ret = isert_put_response(isert_conn->conn, isert_cmd->iscsi_cmd);
+               if (ret)
+                       pr_warn_ratelimited("isert_put_response() ret: %d\n", ret);
+       }
 }
 
 static void
        cmd->i_state = ISTATE_RECEIVED_LAST_DATAOUT;
        spin_unlock_bh(&cmd->istate_lock);
 
-       if (ret) {
-               target_put_sess_cmd(se_cmd);
-               transport_send_check_condition_and_sense(se_cmd,
-                                                        se_cmd->pi_err, 0);
-       } else {
+       /*
+        * transport_generic_request_failure() will drop the extra
+        * se_cmd->cmd_kref reference after T10-PI error, and handle
+        * any non-zero ->queue_status() callback error retries.
+        */
+       if (ret)
+               transport_generic_request_failure(se_cmd, se_cmd->pi_err);
+       else
                target_execute_cmd(se_cmd);
-       }
 }
 
 static void
                chain_wr = &isert_cmd->tx_desc.send_wr;
        }
 
-       isert_rdma_rw_ctx_post(isert_cmd, isert_conn, cqe, chain_wr);
-       isert_dbg("Cmd: %p posted RDMA_WRITE for iSER Data READ\n", isert_cmd);
-       return 1;
+       rc = isert_rdma_rw_ctx_post(isert_cmd, isert_conn, cqe, chain_wr);
+       isert_dbg("Cmd: %p posted RDMA_WRITE for iSER Data READ rc: %d\n",
+                 isert_cmd, rc);
+       return rc;
 }
 
 static int
 isert_get_dataout(struct iscsi_conn *conn, struct iscsi_cmd *cmd, bool recovery)
 {
        struct isert_cmd *isert_cmd = iscsit_priv_cmd(cmd);
+       int ret;
 
        isert_dbg("Cmd: %p RDMA_READ data_length: %u write_data_done: %u\n",
                 isert_cmd, cmd->se_cmd.data_length, cmd->write_data_done);
 
        isert_cmd->tx_desc.tx_cqe.done = isert_rdma_read_done;
-       isert_rdma_rw_ctx_post(isert_cmd, conn->context,
-                       &isert_cmd->tx_desc.tx_cqe, NULL);
+       ret = isert_rdma_rw_ctx_post(isert_cmd, conn->context,
+                                    &isert_cmd->tx_desc.tx_cqe, NULL);
 
-       isert_dbg("Cmd: %p posted RDMA_READ memory for ISER Data WRITE\n",
-                isert_cmd);
-       return 0;
+       isert_dbg("Cmd: %p posted RDMA_READ memory for ISER Data WRITE rc: %d\n",
+                isert_cmd, ret);
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static int