[PATCH v2 03/11] mci: sdhci: bail out on ADMA/transfer errors instead of hanging

Johannes Schneider johannes.schneider at leica-geosystems.com
Sat Jul 4 05:26:20 PDT 2026


sdhci_transfer_data_dma() only watched for the completion and DMA-boundary
interrupts, so a transfer/ADMA error (SDHCI_INT_ERROR, e.g. an ADMA
descriptor fault) left it spinning until the 10s timeout. Check the error
bits and abort the transfer with -EIO, dumping the ADMA error status.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schneider <johannes.schneider at leica-geosystems.com>
---

Notes:
    v2:
    - Drop the sdhci.h SDHCI_INT_ADMA_ERROR define; upstream now provides it.
      Rebased on next.

 drivers/mci/sdhci.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mci/sdhci.c b/drivers/mci/sdhci.c
index 3474ef129b..ccd5d4b83c 100644
--- a/drivers/mci/sdhci.c
+++ b/drivers/mci/sdhci.c
@@ -779,6 +779,14 @@ int sdhci_transfer_data_dma(struct sdhci *sdhci, struct mci_cmd *cmd,
 			goto out;
 		}
 
+		/* e.g. ADMA error: SDHCI_INT_ERROR without a data-error bit */
+		if (irqstat & SDHCI_INT_ERROR) {
+			dev_err(dev, "transfer error: int 0x%08x adma 0x%02x\n",
+				irqstat, sdhci_read8(sdhci, SDHCI_ADMA_ERROR));
+			ret = -EIO;
+			goto out;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * We currently don't do anything fancy with DMA
 		 * boundaries, but as we can't disable the feature
-- 
2.43.0




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