diff --git a/vendor.conf b/vendor.conf
index 4ecc26735..a185cd7b7 100644
--- a/vendor.conf
+++ b/vendor.conf
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ github.com/boltdb/bolt e9cf4fae01b5a8ff89d0ec6b32f0d9c9f79aefdd
 google.golang.org/genproto d80a6e20e776b0b17a324d0ba1ab50a39c8e8944
 golang.org/x/text 19e51611da83d6be54ddafce4a4af510cb3e9ea4
 github.com/dmcgowan/go-tar go1.10
-github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc 76e68349ad9ab4d03d764c713826d31216715e4f
+github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc d2710463e497617f16f26d1e715a3308609e7982
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/client.go b/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/client.go
index ca76afe19..ae367f90e 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/client.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/client.go
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@ package ttrpc
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"io"
 	"net"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/containerd/containerd/log"
 	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto"
@@ -11,6 +15,10 @@ import (
 	"google.golang.org/grpc/status"
 )
 
+// ErrClosed is returned by client methods when the underlying connection is
+// closed.
+var ErrClosed = errors.New("ttrpc: closed")
+
 type Client struct {
 	codec   codec
 	conn    net.Conn
@@ -91,7 +99,7 @@ func (c *Client) dispatch(ctx context.Context, req *Request, resp *Response) err
 
 	select {
 	case err := <-errs:
-		return err
+		return filterCloseErr(err)
 	case <-c.done:
 		return c.err
 	}
@@ -171,7 +179,14 @@ func (c *Client) run() {
 			call.errs <- c.recv(call.resp, msg)
 			delete(waiters, msg.StreamID)
 		case <-shutdown:
+			if shutdownErr != nil {
+				shutdownErr = filterCloseErr(shutdownErr)
+			} else {
+				shutdownErr = ErrClosed
+			}
+
 			shutdownErr = errors.Wrapf(shutdownErr, "ttrpc: client shutting down")
+
 			c.err = shutdownErr
 			for _, waiter := range waiters {
 				waiter.errs <- shutdownErr
@@ -179,6 +194,9 @@ func (c *Client) run() {
 			c.Close()
 			return
 		case <-c.closed:
+			if c.err == nil {
+				c.err = ErrClosed
+			}
 			// broadcast the shutdown error to the remaining waiters.
 			for _, waiter := range waiters {
 				waiter.errs <- shutdownErr
@@ -209,3 +227,30 @@ func (c *Client) recv(resp *Response, msg *message) error {
 	defer c.channel.putmbuf(msg.p)
 	return proto.Unmarshal(msg.p, resp)
 }
+
+// filterCloseErr rewrites EOF and EPIPE errors to ErrClosed. Use when
+// returning from call or handling errors from main read loop.
+//
+// This purposely ignores errors with a wrapped cause.
+func filterCloseErr(err error) error {
+	if err == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if err == io.EOF {
+		return ErrClosed
+	}
+
+	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "use of closed network connection") {
+		return ErrClosed
+	}
+
+	// if we have an epipe on a write, we cast to errclosed
+	if oerr, ok := err.(*net.OpError); ok && oerr.Op == "write" {
+		if serr, ok := oerr.Err.(*os.SyscallError); ok && serr.Err == syscall.EPIPE {
+			return ErrClosed
+		}
+	}
+
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/server.go b/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/server.go
index edfca0c52..5d688e5d5 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/server.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc/server.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	ErrServerClosed = errors.New("ttrpc: server close")
+	ErrServerClosed = errors.New("ttrpc: server closed")
 )
 
 type Server struct {