Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Fix timeout checks on polling path

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Tue Apr 08 2025 - 06:33:02 EST


On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:58:00 +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> Polling mode transactions wait for a reply busy-looping without holding a
> spinlock, but currently the timeout checks are based only on elapsed time:
> as a result we could hit a false positive whenever our busy-looping thread
> is pre-empted and scheduled out for a time greater than the polling
> timeout.
>
> Change the checks at the end of the busy-loop to make sure that the polling
> wasn't indeed successful or an out-of-order reply caused the polling to be
> forcibly terminated.
>
> [...]

Applied to sudeep.holla/linux (for-next/scmi/fixes), thanks!

[1/1] firmware: arm_scmi: Fix timeout checks on polling path
https://git.kernel.org/sudeep.holla/c/c23c03bf1faa
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Regards,
Sudeep