diff --git a/os_brick/initiator/connectors/iscsi.py b/os_brick/initiator/connectors/iscsi.py
index 22a718294..e49ba3552 100644
--- a/os_brick/initiator/connectors/iscsi.py
+++ b/os_brick/initiator/connectors/iscsi.py
@@ -956,13 +956,18 @@ class ISCSIConnector(base.BaseLinuxConnector, base_iscsi.BaseISCSIConnector):
         self._disconnect_connection(connection_properties, disconnect, force,
                                     exc)
 
-        # If flushing the multipath failed before, try now after we have
-        # removed the devices and we may have even logged off (only reaches
-        # here with multipath_name if force=True).
+        # If flushing the multipath failed before, remove the multipath device
+        # map from multipathd monitoring (only reaches here with multipath_name
+        # if force=True).
         if multipath_name:
-            LOG.debug('Flushing again multipath %s now that we removed the '
-                      'devices.', multipath_name)
-            self._linuxscsi.flush_multipath_device(multipath_name)
+            LOG.debug('Removing multipath device map %s to stop multipathd '
+                      'from monitoring the device.', multipath_name)
+            # We are passing sysfs mpath name here (dm-*) which is used
+            # in the multipath_del_map method to fetch the DM name (multipath
+            # device name i.e. SCSI WWID if user friendly names are OFF else
+            # the configured user friendly name).
+            with exc.context(force, 'Deleting map %s failed', multipath_name):
+                self._linuxscsi.multipath_del_map(multipath_name)
 
         if exc:
             LOG.warning('There were errors removing %s, leftovers may remain '
diff --git a/os_brick/tests/initiator/connectors/test_iscsi.py b/os_brick/tests/initiator/connectors/test_iscsi.py
index b0c62b76f..28f89466b 100644
--- a/os_brick/tests/initiator/connectors/test_iscsi.py
+++ b/os_brick/tests/initiator/connectors/test_iscsi.py
@@ -721,11 +721,12 @@ class ISCSIConnectorTestCase(test_connector.ConnectorTestCase):
                 mock.Mock(return_value=True))
     @mock.patch.object(iscsi.ISCSIConnector, '_disconnect_connection')
     @mock.patch.object(iscsi.ISCSIConnector, '_get_connection_devices')
-    @mock.patch.object(linuxscsi.LinuxSCSI, 'flush_multipath_device')
     @mock.patch.object(linuxscsi.LinuxSCSI, 'remove_connection',
                        return_value=mock.sentinel.mp_name)
-    def test_cleanup_connection_force_failure(self, remove_mock, flush_mock,
-                                              con_devs_mock, discon_mock):
+    @mock.patch.object(linuxscsi.LinuxSCSI, 'multipath_del_map')
+    def test_cleanup_connection_force_failure(self, remove_map_mock,
+                                              remove_mock, con_devs_mock,
+                                              discon_mock):
 
         # Return an ordered dicts instead of normal dict for discon_mock.assert
         con_devs_mock.return_value = collections.OrderedDict((
@@ -749,7 +750,7 @@ class ISCSIConnectorTestCase(test_connector.ConnectorTestCase):
             self.CON_PROPS,
             [('ip1:port1', 'tgt1'), ('ip3:port3', 'tgt3')],
             mock.sentinel.force, mock.ANY)
-        flush_mock.assert_called_once_with(mock.sentinel.mp_name)
+        remove_map_mock.assert_called_once_with(mock.sentinel.mp_name)
 
     def test_cleanup_connection_no_data_discoverydb(self):
         self.connector.use_multipath = True
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/fix-iscsi-force-disconnect-2cae1d629191c3cc.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/fix-iscsi-force-disconnect-2cae1d629191c3cc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1ae1e4b3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/fix-iscsi-force-disconnect-2cae1d629191c3cc.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    `Bug #2012251 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/os-brick/+bug/2012251>`_: Fixed
+    issue when disconnecting iSCSI volume when ``force`` and ``ignore_errors``
+    are set to ``True`` and flushing multipath device fails.