diff --git a/lib/http2.c b/lib/http2.c
index d364f3a77..b20854a3b 100644
--- a/lib/http2.c
+++ b/lib/http2.c
@@ -514,6 +514,10 @@ static ssize_t http2_recv(struct connectdata *conn, int sockindex,
 
   (void)sockindex; /* we always do HTTP2 on sockindex 0 */
 
+  if(httpc->closed) {
+    return 0;
+  }
+
   /* Nullify here because we call nghttp2_session_send() and they
      might refer to the old buffer. */
   httpc->upload_mem = NULL;
diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c
index 83727db68..8748c6a01 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.c
+++ b/lib/transfer.c
@@ -310,7 +310,16 @@ static int data_pending(const struct connectdata *conn)
   /* in the case of libssh2, we can never be really sure that we have emptied
      its internal buffers so we MUST always try until we get EAGAIN back */
   return conn->handler->protocol&(CURLPROTO_SCP|CURLPROTO_SFTP) ||
-    Curl_ssl_data_pending(conn, FIRSTSOCKET);
+    Curl_ssl_data_pending(conn, FIRSTSOCKET) ||
+    /* For HTTP/2, we may read up everything including responde body
+       with header fields in Curl_http_readwrite_headers. If no
+       content-length is provided, curl waits for the connection
+       close, which we emulate it using conn->proto.httpc.closed =
+       TRUE. The thing is if we read everything, then http2_recv won't
+       be called and we cannot signal the HTTP/2 stream has closed. As
+       a workaround, we return nonzero here to call http2_recv. */
+    ((conn->handler->protocol&CURLPROTO_HTTP) && conn->httpversion == 20 &&
+     conn->proto.httpc.closed);
 }
 
 static void read_rewind(struct connectdata *conn,