[PATCH] arm: spi: atmel_qspi: fix race condition in transfer completion check
Ramin Moussavi
lordrasmus at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 20:27:09 CEST 2025
In atmel_qspi_transfer(), the status register is polled with:
imr = QSPI_SR_INSTRE | QSPI_SR_CSR;
return readl_poll_timeout(aq->regs + QSPI_SR, sr,
(sr & imr) == imr,
ATMEL_QSPI_TIMEOUT);
However, this is racy: QSPI_SR_INSTRE can be set before QSPI_SR_CSR,
and will then be cleared by the read. If that happens, the condition
"(sr & imr) == imr" can never be true, and the function times out.
This race condition is avoided in at91bootstrap by accumulating the
status bits across reads until both bits have been observed:
/* Poll INSTruction End and Chip Select Rise flags. */
imr = (QSPI_SR_INSTRE | QSPI_SR_CSR);
sr = 0;
do {
udelay(1);
sr |= qspi_readl(qspi, QSPI_SR) & imr;
} while ((--timeout) && (sr != imr));
Update U-Boot's atmel_qspi_transfer() to use the same pattern,
ensuring that both flags are observed even if they are not set
simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Ramin Moussavi <lordrasmus at gmail.com>
---
drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c b/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c
index 8aa7a83aef4..0f9ce409a0c 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c
@@ -616,6 +616,8 @@ static int atmel_qspi_transfer(struct atmel_qspi *aq,
const struct spi_mem_op *op, u32 offset)
{
u32 sr, imr;
+ u32 val = 0;
+ unsigned long timeout;
/* Skip to the final steps if there is no data */
if (op->data.nbytes) {
@@ -636,8 +638,16 @@ static int atmel_qspi_transfer(struct atmel_qspi *aq,
/* Poll INSTruction End and Chip Select Rise flags. */
imr = QSPI_SR_INSTRE | QSPI_SR_CSR;
- return readl_poll_timeout(aq->regs + QSPI_SR, sr, (sr & imr) == imr,
- ATMEL_QSPI_TIMEOUT);
+
+ timeout = timer_get_us() + ATMEL_QSPI_TIMEOUT;
+ while (1) {
+ val |= readl(aq->regs + QSPI_SR) & imr;
+ if ((val & imr) == imr)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (time_after(timer_get_us(), timeout))
+ return -ETIMEDOUT;
+ }
}
static int atmel_qspi_sama7g5_set_cfg(struct atmel_qspi *aq,
--
2.50.1
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