Re: [PATCH v3] usb: typec: ucsi: recover from silent PPM completion in sync_control
From: AceLan Kao
Date: Wed Sep 30 2026 - 23:26:34 EST
A gentle ping
AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 於 2026年9月1日週二 上午10:27寫道:
>
> From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some firmware completes UCSI commands and sets COMMAND_COMPLETE (or
> ACK_COMPLETE for ACK_CC_CI) in CCI but never fires the ACPI notify that
> would wake ucsi_sync_control_common(). The driver then times out after
> 5 seconds and returns -ETIMEDOUT, even though the EC finished the command
> successfully.
>
> Fix this by polling CCI once via poll_cci() on timeout. If the relevant
> completion bit is already set, the EC finished silently; fall through to
> out_clear_bit so the normal read_cci()/read_message_in() path retrieves
> the data and ucsi_run_command() issues ACK_CC_CI as usual. Only return
> -ETIMEDOUT when the EC has genuinely not completed the command.
>
> Guard the poll_cci() call with a NULL check: if a backend does not
> provide the op, skip the poll and keep reporting -ETIMEDOUT rather than
> dereferencing a NULL function pointer.
>
> Fixes: 584e8df58942 ("usb: typec: ucsi: extract common code for command handling")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.14+
> Signed-off-by: Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan) <acelan.kao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> v2 -> v3:
> - rebase and resolve conflicts against v7.2
> - Invert the post-timeout completion check so the empty "silent
> completion" branch falls straight through to out_clear_bit instead
> of being an empty if {} with the real logic in the else, as pointed
> out in Greg's review.
> v1 -> v2:
> - Add Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.14+ as flagged by Greg's patch bot:
> the Fixes: tag targets a commit already in released kernels, so the fix
> must be nominated for stable. Scoped to 6.14+ because poll_cci only
> exists from that release (absent in 6.11-6.13).
> - Guard the poll_cci() call with a NULL check to avoid dereferencing a
> NULL function pointer when a backend does not provide the op.
> ---
> drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
> index bef3f9b71d718..0363ed127a567 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
> @@ -92,8 +92,28 @@ int ucsi_sync_control_common(struct ucsi *ucsi, u64 command, u32 *cci,
> goto out_clear_bit;
>
> if (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&ucsi->complete,
> - msecs_to_jiffies(UCSI_TIMEOUT_MS)))
> - ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
> + msecs_to_jiffies(UCSI_TIMEOUT_MS))) {
> + u32 polled_cci = 0;
> +
> + /*
> + * Notification from EC did not arrive. Poll once to check
> + * whether the PPM actually finished without firing a notify.
> + * If poll_cci() is missing or fails, polled_cci stays 0 and we
> + * correctly report -ETIMEDOUT below.
> + */
> + if (ucsi->ops->poll_cci)
> + ucsi->ops->poll_cci(ucsi, &polled_cci);
> +
> + /*
> + * If the relevant completion bit is not set, the EC has not
> + * completed the command; report the timeout. Otherwise fall
> + * through to out_clear_bit, which reads CCI+data normally,
> + * and ucsi_run_command() will issue ACK_CC_CI as usual.
> + */
> + if (!((ack && (polled_cci & UCSI_CCI_ACK_COMPLETE)) ||
> + (!ack && (polled_cci & UCSI_CCI_COMMAND_COMPLETE))))
> + ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
> + }
>
> out_clear_bit:
> if (ack)
> --
> 2.53.0
>
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Chia-Lin Kao(AceLan)
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