diff --git a/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.c b/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.c
index 13de320287024..ca98c6e4cf9d9 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.c
@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ static void gsi_channel_state_change_wait(unsigned long chan_hdl,
 		}
 
 		if (op == GSI_CH_START) {
-			if (curr_state == GSI_CHAN_STATE_STARTED) {
+			if (curr_state == GSI_CHAN_STATE_STARTED ||
+				curr_state == GSI_CHAN_STATE_FLOW_CONTROL) {
 				ctx->state = curr_state;
 				return;
 			}
@@ -2697,7 +2698,8 @@ int gsi_start_channel(unsigned long chan_hdl)
 		ctx,
 		GSI_START_CMD_TIMEOUT_MS, op);
 
-	if (ctx->state != GSI_CHAN_STATE_STARTED) {
+	if (ctx->state != GSI_CHAN_STATE_STARTED &&
+		ctx->state != GSI_CHAN_STATE_FLOW_CONTROL) {
 		/*
 		* Hardware returned unexpected status, unexpected
 		* hardware state.
diff --git a/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.h b/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.h
index e4b524949967b..b1396626f37ac 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.h
+++ b/drivers/platform/msm/gsi/gsi.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2015-2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+/* Copyright (c) 2015-2019, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ enum gsi_chan_state {
 	GSI_CHAN_STATE_STARTED = 0x2,
 	GSI_CHAN_STATE_STOPPED = 0x3,
 	GSI_CHAN_STATE_STOP_IN_PROC = 0x4,
+	GSI_CHAN_STATE_FLOW_CONTROL = 0x5,
 	GSI_CHAN_STATE_ERROR = 0xf
 };