[PATCH] firmware: stratix10-rsu: avoid RSU mutex deadlock on update

From: tze . yee . ng

Date: Mon May 04 2026 - 22:51:42 EST


From: Tze Yee Ng <tze.yee.ng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Use mutex_trylock() in rsu_send_msg() instead of mutex_lock() so callers
that already hold priv->lock or race with an in-flight RSU operation get
-EAGAIN instead of blocking forever.

In reboot_image_store(), treat -EAGAIN as a no-op success so sysfs write
does not hang when the RSU path is busy.

Signed-off-by: Tze Yee Ng <tze.yee.ng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c b/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c
index e1912108a0fe..f3ee0b4e49a8 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c
@@ -254,7 +254,13 @@ static void rsu_async_get_spt_table_callback(struct device *dev,
* is necessary to get RSU boot log or set the address of bitstream to
* boot after reboot.
*
- * Returns 0 on success or -ETIMEDOUT on error.
+ * Return:
+ * * 0 on success
+ * * -EAGAIN if the driver mutex could not be acquired
+ * * a negative errno from stratix10_svc_send() on failure to send the request
+ * * -ETIMEDOUT if waiting for the SMC callback times out
+ * * a negative errno from wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() if
+ * interrupted or otherwise signaled while waiting (for example -ERESTARTSYS)
*/
static int rsu_send_msg(struct stratix10_rsu_priv *priv,
enum stratix10_svc_command_code command,
@@ -264,7 +270,8 @@ static int rsu_send_msg(struct stratix10_rsu_priv *priv,
struct stratix10_svc_client_msg msg;
int ret;

- mutex_lock(&priv->lock);
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&priv->lock))
+ return -EAGAIN;
reinit_completion(&priv->completion);
priv->client.receive_cb = callback;

@@ -597,7 +604,9 @@ static ssize_t reboot_image_store(struct device *dev,

ret = rsu_send_msg(priv, COMMAND_RSU_UPDATE,
address, rsu_command_callback);
- if (ret) {
+ if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
+ return 0;
+ } else if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Error, RSU update returned %i\n", ret);
return ret;
}
--
2.43.7