From: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@kernel.org>
To: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>,
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Piotr Wojtaszczyk <piotr.wojtaszczyk@timesys.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: lpc32xx_mlc: fail DMA transfers on timeout
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:42:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88e3f1a6-b07e-4442-a275-269d68aa8120@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260625003327.11060-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
On 6/25/26 03:33, Pengpeng Hou wrote:
> lpc32xx_xmit_dma() starts a DMA transfer and waits up to one second for
> its completion, but it ignores the wait result and returns success after
> unmapping the buffer.
>
> A timed out read can therefore return success with incomplete data, and a
> timed out write can continue the NAND operation without proof that the DMA
> payload reached the controller.
>
> Terminate the DMA channel on timeout, unmap the scatterlist through the
> existing cleanup path, and return -ETIMEDOUT to the NAND read/write
> callers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_mlc.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_mlc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_mlc.c
> index 19b13ae53..8f6a89d9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_mlc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_mlc.c
> @@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ static int lpc32xx_xmit_dma(struct mtd_info *mtd, void *mem, int len,
> struct lpc32xx_nand_host *host = nand_get_controller_data(chip);
> struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc;
> int flags = DMA_CTRL_ACK | DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT;
> + unsigned long time_left;
> int res;
>
> sg_init_one(&host->sgl, mem, len);
> @@ -410,6 +411,7 @@ static int lpc32xx_xmit_dma(struct mtd_info *mtd, void *mem, int len,
> flags);
> if (!desc) {
> dev_err(mtd->dev.parent, "Failed to prepare slave sg\n");
> + res = -ENXIO;
> goto out1;
> }
>
> @@ -420,7 +422,13 @@ static int lpc32xx_xmit_dma(struct mtd_info *mtd, void *mem, int len,
> dmaengine_submit(desc);
> dma_async_issue_pending(host->dma_chan);
>
> - wait_for_completion_timeout(&host->comp_dma, msecs_to_jiffies(1000));
> + time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&host->comp_dma,
> + msecs_to_jiffies(1000));
> + if (!time_left) {
> + dmaengine_terminate_sync(host->dma_chan);
> + res = -ETIMEDOUT;
> + goto out1;
> + }
>
> dma_unmap_sg(host->dma_chan->device->dev, &host->sgl, 1,
> DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> @@ -428,7 +436,7 @@ static int lpc32xx_xmit_dma(struct mtd_info *mtd, void *mem, int len,
> out1:
> dma_unmap_sg(host->dma_chan->device->dev, &host->sgl, 1,
> DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> - return -ENXIO;
> + return res;
> }
>
> static int lpc32xx_read_page(struct nand_chip *chip, uint8_t *buf,
Thank you for the change.
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@kernel.org>
--
Best wishes,
Vladimir
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