While the 'state' attribute can (and will) change occasionally, calling 'poll()' or 'select()' on it fails as sysfs is never notified that the state has changed. With this patch calling 'poll()' or 'select()' will work properly. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 7 +++++-- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 41c19c7..2101cfd 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -2654,6 +2654,7 @@ void scsi_exit_queue(void) } sdev->sdev_state = state; + sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state"); return 0; illegal: @@ -3074,14 +3075,16 @@ int scsi_internal_device_unblock_nowait(struct scsi_device *sdev, * offlined states and goose the device queue if successful. */ if ((sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_BLOCK) || - (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_TRANSPORT_OFFLINE)) + (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_TRANSPORT_OFFLINE)) { sdev->sdev_state = new_state; - else if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_CREATED_BLOCK) { + sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state"); + } else if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_CREATED_BLOCK) { if (new_state == SDEV_TRANSPORT_OFFLINE || new_state == SDEV_OFFLINE) sdev->sdev_state = new_state; else sdev->sdev_state = SDEV_CREATED; + sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state"); } else if (sdev->sdev_state != SDEV_CANCEL && sdev->sdev_state != SDEV_OFFLINE) return -EINVAL; diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c index f617021..698cc46 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c @@ -556,8 +556,11 @@ int srp_reconnect_rport(struct srp_rport *rport) */ shost_for_each_device(sdev, shost) { mutex_lock(&sdev->state_mutex); - if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_OFFLINE) + if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_OFFLINE) { sdev->sdev_state = SDEV_RUNNING; + sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, + NULL, "state"); + } mutex_unlock(&sdev->state_mutex); } } else if (rport->state == SRP_RPORT_RUNNING) { -- 1.8.5.6