diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront
index 28008905615f..1f7659aa085c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ KernelVersion:  5.10
 Contact:        SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
 Description:
                 Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not.  Note
-                that this option only takes effect on newly created frontends.
+                that this option only takes effect on newly connected frontends.
                 The default is Y (enable).
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index f6f679702b83..23fc4c8f2603 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -2014,8 +2014,6 @@ static int blkfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	info->vdevice = vdevice;
 	info->connected = BLKIF_STATE_DISCONNECTED;
 
-	info->feature_persistent = feature_persistent;
-
 	/* Front end dir is a number, which is used as the id. */
 	info->handle = simple_strtoul(strrchr(dev->nodename, '/')+1, NULL, 0);
 	dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, info);
@@ -2309,7 +2307,7 @@ static void blkfront_gather_backend_features(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	if (xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, "feature-discard", 0))
 		blkfront_setup_discard(info);
 
-	if (info->feature_persistent)
+	if (feature_persistent)
 		info->feature_persistent =
 			!!xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend,
 					       "feature-persistent", 0);