diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c
index bc5b0e00efb15422bcbf57a32798a4ea28a42646..47be411400e56aed1b48f44d4254e0178a640412 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static const char * const rproc_state_string[] = {
 	[RPROC_SUSPENDED]	= "suspended",
 	[RPROC_RUNNING]		= "running",
 	[RPROC_CRASHED]		= "crashed",
+	[RPROC_DELETED]		= "deleted",
 	[RPROC_LAST]		= "invalid",
 };
 
diff --git a/include/linux/remoteproc.h b/include/linux/remoteproc.h
index 8265d351c9f0e6bc7814fd59ca1efff531e4798f..e691f64fc7bea06c761aeb7f064860de8b369cae 100644
--- a/include/linux/remoteproc.h
+++ b/include/linux/remoteproc.h
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ struct rproc_ops {
  *			a message.
  * @RPROC_RUNNING:	device is up and running
  * @RPROC_CRASHED:	device has crashed; need to start recovery
+ * @RPROC_DELETED:	device is deleted
  * @RPROC_LAST:		just keep this one at the end
  *
  * Please note that the values of these states are used as indices
@@ -359,7 +360,8 @@ enum rproc_state {
 	RPROC_SUSPENDED	= 1,
 	RPROC_RUNNING	= 2,
 	RPROC_CRASHED	= 3,
-	RPROC_LAST	= 4,
+	RPROC_DELETED	= 4,
+	RPROC_LAST	= 5,
 };
 
 /**