[PATCH] i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: fix IBI payload length calculation for final status

Billy Tsai billy_tsai at aspeedtech.com
Thu Apr 2 01:07:46 PDT 2026


On 31/03/2026 13:27, Billy Tsai wrote:
> > In DMA mode, the IBI status descriptor encodes the payload using
> > CHUNKS (number of chunks) and DATA_LENGTH (valid bytes in the last
> > chunk). All preceding chunks are implicitly full-sized.
> >
> > The current code accumulates full chunk sizes for non-final status
> > descriptors, but for the final status descriptor it only adds
> > DATA_LENGTH. This ignores the contribution of the preceding full
> > chunks described by the same final status entry.
> >
> > As a result, the computed IBI payload length is truncated whenever
> > the final status spans multiple chunks. For example, with a chunk
> > size of 4 bytes, CHUNKS=2 and DATA_LENGTH=1 should result in a total
> > payload size of 5 bytes, but the current code reports only 1 byte.
> >
> > Fix the calculation by adding the size of (CHUNKS - 1) full chunks
> > plus DATA_LENGTH for the last chunk.
> >
> > Fixes: 9ad9a52cce28 ("i3c/master: introduce the mipi-i3c-hci driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Billy Tsai <billy_tsai at aspeedtech.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c
> > index b903a2da1fd1..f4c76f168276 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c
> > @@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ static void hci_dma_process_ibi(struct i3c_hci *hci, struct hci_rh_data *rh)
> >               if (!(ibi_status & IBI_LAST_STATUS)) {
> >                       ibi_size += chunks * rh->ibi_chunk_sz;
> >               } else {
> > +                     ibi_size += (chunks - 1) * rh->ibi_chunk_sz;

> That assumes chunks is not 0.  It would be better to
> defend against that possibility i.e.
> 
>                         if (chunks) {
>                                 ibi_size += (chunks - 1) * rh->ibi_chunk_sz;
>                                 ibi_size += FIELD_GET(IBI_DATA_LENGTH, ibi_status);
>                         }
> 

As expected, the value should never be 0, as this is guaranteed by the hardware.

If we add a check for 0, it may be appropriate to include a WARN_ON message to
indicate unexpected hardware behavior.

Thanks

Billy Tsai



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