[PATCH V3 06/14] i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Fix race in DMA ring dequeue

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter at intel.com
Thu Mar 5 23:24:43 PST 2026


The HCI DMA dequeue path (hci_dma_dequeue_xfer()) may be invoked for
multiple transfers that timeout around the same time.  However, the
function is not serialized and can race with itself.

When a timeout occurs, hci_dma_dequeue_xfer() stops the ring, processes
incomplete transfers, and then restarts the ring.  If another timeout
triggers a parallel call into the same function, the two instances may
interfere with each other - stopping or restarting the ring at unexpected
times.

Add a mutex so that hci_dma_dequeue_xfer() is serialized with respect to
itself.

Fixes: 9ad9a52cce282 ("i3c/master: introduce the mipi-i3c-hci driver")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li at nxp.com>
---


Changes in V3:

	Add Frank's Rev'd-by

Changes in V2:

	Mutex now defined in struct i3c_hci instead of struct hci_rh_data


 drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/core.c | 1 +
 drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c  | 2 ++
 drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/hci.h  | 1 +
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/core.c b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/core.c
index faf5eae2409f..061e84a5c412 100644
--- a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/core.c
+++ b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/core.c
@@ -927,6 +927,7 @@ static int i3c_hci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&hci->lock);
+	mutex_init(&hci->control_mutex);
 
 	/*
 	 * Multi-bus instances share the same MMIO address range, but not
diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c
index 74b255ad6d0f..f7d411e5e11f 100644
--- a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c
+++ b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/dma.c
@@ -547,6 +547,8 @@ static bool hci_dma_dequeue_xfer(struct i3c_hci *hci,
 	unsigned int i;
 	bool did_unqueue = false;
 
+	guard(mutex)(&hci->control_mutex);
+
 	/* stop the ring */
 	rh_reg_write(RING_CONTROL, RING_CTRL_ABORT);
 	if (wait_for_completion_timeout(&rh->op_done, HZ) == 0) {
diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/hci.h b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/hci.h
index f1dd502c071f..9c63d80f7fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/hci.h
+++ b/drivers/i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci/hci.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct i3c_hci {
 	void *io_data;
 	const struct hci_cmd_ops *cmd;
 	spinlock_t lock;
+	struct mutex control_mutex;
 	atomic_t next_cmd_tid;
 	bool irq_inactive;
 	u32 caps;
-- 
2.51.0




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