diff --git a/gunicorn/workers/async.py b/gunicorn/workers/async.py
index d3cce5fc7..4cfa7a86c 100644
--- a/gunicorn/workers/async.py
+++ b/gunicorn/workers/async.py
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ def handle_request(self, listener_name, req, sock, addr):
                     respiter.close()
             if resp.should_close():
                 raise StopIteration()
+        except StopIteration:
+            raise
         except Exception:
             if resp and resp.headers_sent:
                 # If the requests have already been sent, we should close the