diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
index ad0f9d4c5ba9..22a1d758620e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
@@ -1154,7 +1154,15 @@ static void storvsc_command_completion(struct hv_storvsc_request *request)
 		}
 	}
 
-	scmnd->result = vm_srb->scsi_status;
+	/*
+	 * If there is an error; offline the device since all
+	 * error recovery strategies would have already been
+	 * deployed on the host side.
+	 */
+	if (vm_srb->srb_status == 0x4)
+		scmnd->result = DID_TARGET_FAILURE << 16;
+	else
+		scmnd->result = vm_srb->scsi_status;
 
 	if (scmnd->result) {
 		if (scsi_normalize_sense(scmnd->sense_buffer,