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> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 3 +++ drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 9169396..eda41b0 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -2655,6 +2655,7 @@ void scsi_exit_queue(void) } sdev->sdev_state = state; + sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state"); return 0; illegal: @@ -3078,6 +3079,7 @@ int scsi_internal_device_unblock_nowait(struct scsi_device *sdev, case SDEV_BLOCK: case SDEV_TRANSPORT_OFFLINE: sdev->sdev_state = new_state; + sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state"); break; case SDEV_CREATED_BLOCK: if (new_state == SDEV_TRANSPORT_OFFLINE || @@ -3085,6 +3087,7 @@ int scsi_internal_device_unblock_nowait(struct scsi_device *sdev, sdev->sdev_state = new_state; else sdev->sdev_state = SDEV_CREATED; + sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state"); break; case SDEV_CANCEL: case SDEV_OFFLINE: 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