diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
index 059dae8909ee..38e68b449c08 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
@@ -3040,8 +3040,9 @@ iscsi_conn_setup(struct iscsi_cls_session *cls_session, int dd_size,
 	struct iscsi_conn *conn;
 	struct iscsi_cls_conn *cls_conn;
 	char *data;
+	int err;
 
-	cls_conn = iscsi_create_conn(cls_session, sizeof(*conn) + dd_size,
+	cls_conn = iscsi_alloc_conn(cls_session, sizeof(*conn) + dd_size,
 				     conn_idx);
 	if (!cls_conn)
 		return NULL;
@@ -3078,13 +3079,21 @@ iscsi_conn_setup(struct iscsi_cls_session *cls_session, int dd_size,
 		goto login_task_data_alloc_fail;
 	conn->login_task->data = conn->data = data;
 
+	err = iscsi_add_conn(cls_conn);
+	if (err)
+		goto login_task_add_dev_fail;
+
 	return cls_conn;
 
+login_task_add_dev_fail:
+	free_pages((unsigned long) conn->data,
+		   get_order(ISCSI_DEF_MAX_RECV_SEG_LEN));
+
 login_task_data_alloc_fail:
 	kfifo_in(&session->cmdpool.queue, (void*)&conn->login_task,
 		    sizeof(void*));
 login_task_alloc_fail:
-	iscsi_destroy_conn(cls_conn);
+	iscsi_put_conn(cls_conn);
 	return NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iscsi_conn_setup);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
index 65117ed5626e..fc33000a6af9 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
@@ -2437,82 +2437,6 @@ void iscsi_remove_conn(struct iscsi_cls_conn *conn)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iscsi_remove_conn);
 
-/**
- * iscsi_create_conn - create iscsi class connection
- * @session: iscsi cls session
- * @dd_size: private driver data size
- * @cid: connection id
- *
- * This can be called from a LLD or iscsi_transport. The connection
- * is child of the session so cid must be unique for all connections
- * on the session.
- *
- * Since we do not support MCS, cid will normally be zero. In some cases
- * for software iscsi we could be trying to preallocate a connection struct
- * in which case there could be two connection structs and cid would be
- * non-zero.
- */
-struct iscsi_cls_conn *
-iscsi_create_conn(struct iscsi_cls_session *session, int dd_size, uint32_t cid)
-{
-	struct iscsi_transport *transport = session->transport;
-	struct iscsi_cls_conn *conn;
-	unsigned long flags;
-	int err;
-
-	conn = kzalloc(sizeof(*conn) + dd_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!conn)
-		return NULL;
-	if (dd_size)
-		conn->dd_data = &conn[1];
-
-	mutex_init(&conn->ep_mutex);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conn->conn_list);
-	INIT_WORK(&conn->cleanup_work, iscsi_cleanup_conn_work_fn);
-	conn->transport = transport;
-	conn->cid = cid;
-	conn->state = ISCSI_CONN_DOWN;
-
-	/* this is released in the dev's release function */
-	if (!get_device(&session->dev))
-		goto free_conn;
-
-	dev_set_name(&conn->dev, "connection%d:%u", session->sid, cid);
-	conn->dev.parent = &session->dev;
-	conn->dev.release = iscsi_conn_release;
-	err = device_register(&conn->dev);
-	if (err) {
-		iscsi_cls_session_printk(KERN_ERR, session, "could not "
-					 "register connection's dev\n");
-		goto release_parent_ref;
-	}
-	err = transport_register_device(&conn->dev);
-	if (err) {
-		iscsi_cls_session_printk(KERN_ERR, session, "could not "
-					 "register transport's dev\n");
-		goto release_conn_ref;
-	}
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&connlock, flags);
-	list_add(&conn->conn_list, &connlist);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&connlock, flags);
-
-	ISCSI_DBG_TRANS_CONN(conn, "Completed conn creation\n");
-	return conn;
-
-release_conn_ref:
-	device_unregister(&conn->dev);
-	put_device(&session->dev);
-	return NULL;
-release_parent_ref:
-	put_device(&session->dev);
-free_conn:
-	kfree(conn);
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iscsi_create_conn);
-
 /**
  * iscsi_destroy_conn - destroy iscsi class connection
  * @conn: iscsi cls session
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.h b/include/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.h
index ae686addde0c..4af6768e8195 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.h
@@ -445,8 +445,6 @@ extern struct iscsi_cls_conn *iscsi_alloc_conn(struct iscsi_cls_session *sess,
 						int dd_size, uint32_t cid);
 extern int iscsi_add_conn(struct iscsi_cls_conn *conn);
 extern void iscsi_remove_conn(struct iscsi_cls_conn *conn);
-extern struct iscsi_cls_conn *iscsi_create_conn(struct iscsi_cls_session *sess,
-						int dd_size, uint32_t cid);
 extern void iscsi_put_conn(struct iscsi_cls_conn *conn);
 extern void iscsi_get_conn(struct iscsi_cls_conn *conn);
 extern int iscsi_destroy_conn(struct iscsi_cls_conn *conn);
