diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index 5cf8109f672a5..74d35a8716446 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -491,6 +491,15 @@ int vsock_assign_transport(struct vsock_sock *vsk, struct vsock_sock *psk)
 		 */
 		vsk->transport->release(vsk);
 		vsock_deassign_transport(vsk);
+
+		/* transport's release() and destruct() can touch some socket
+		 * state, since we are reassigning the socket to a new transport
+		 * during vsock_connect(), let's reset these fields to have a
+		 * clean state.
+		 */
+		sock_reset_flag(sk, SOCK_DONE);
+		sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
+		vsk->peer_shutdown = 0;
 	}
 
 	/* We increase the module refcnt to prevent the transport unloading