diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
index 3668a95778ec213f4bd73086fd4f8b37eb0e2a7c..063e5f53ca78b53236e9abea2cade751427dbeac 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
@@ -582,6 +582,10 @@ static int vmbus_match(struct device *device, struct device_driver *driver)
 	struct hv_driver *drv = drv_to_hv_drv(driver);
 	struct hv_device *hv_dev = device_to_hv_device(device);
 
+	/* The hv_sock driver handles all hv_sock offers. */
+	if (is_hvsock_channel(hv_dev->channel))
+		return drv->hvsock;
+
 	if (hv_vmbus_get_id(drv->id_table, &hv_dev->dev_type))
 		return 1;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h
index 898eac9e8c13ea2f36aef6b2c46af666d0b68311..f636f91f104b7f926c1ef2cfd0604b3ba8b6b24d 100644
--- a/include/linux/hyperv.h
+++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h
@@ -990,6 +990,20 @@ extern void vmbus_ontimer(unsigned long data);
 struct hv_driver {
 	const char *name;
 
+	/*
+	 * A hvsock offer, which has a VMBUS_CHANNEL_TLNPI_PROVIDER_OFFER
+	 * channel flag, actually doesn't mean a synthetic device because the
+	 * offer's if_type/if_instance can change for every new hvsock
+	 * connection.
+	 *
+	 * However, to facilitate the notification of new-offer/rescind-offer
+	 * from vmbus driver to hvsock driver, we can handle hvsock offer as
+	 * a special vmbus device, and hence we need the below flag to
+	 * indicate if the driver is the hvsock driver or not: we need to
+	 * specially treat the hvosck offer & driver in vmbus_match().
+	 */
+	bool hvsock;
+
 	/* the device type supported by this driver */
 	uuid_le dev_type;
 	const struct hv_vmbus_device_id *id_table;