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* [PATCH] spi: virtio: mark device ready before registering the controller
@ 2026-08-13  8:46 Jasper Wise
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From: Jasper Wise @ 2026-08-13  8:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: quic_haixcui, broonie
  Cc: virtualization, linux-spi, linux-kernel, nh-open-source

virtio_spi_probe() registers the SPI controller with
devm_spi_register_controller(). spi_register_controller() binds a child
inline unless its driver has asked for asynchronous probing, so a
peripheral that performs a transfer during its own probe reaches
virtio_spi_transfer_one(), which kicks the virtqueue before probe has
returned.

The driver never calls virtio_device_ready(), so DRIVER_OK is set on its
behalf by virtio_dev_probe(), only once probe has returned. The virtio
spec is explicit about that ordering in 3.1 Device Initialization:
  |  The driver MUST NOT send any buffer available notifications to the
  |  device before setting DRIVER_OK.

A device that waits for DRIVER_OK before servicing the queue therefore
leaves the transfer unanswered, and virtio_spi_transfer_one() waits for its
completion with no timeout, so probe never returns.

Mark the device ready before registering the controller, as done for the
same reason in commit f5866db64f34 ("virtio_console: enable VQs early") and
commit 1d774589f924 ("i2c: virtio: mark device ready before registering the
adapter").

Fixes: f98cabe3f6cf ("SPI: Add virtio SPI driver")
Signed-off-by: Jasper Wise <jaspwise@amazon.co.uk>
---
 drivers/spi/spi-virtio.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-virtio.c b/drivers/spi/spi-virtio.c
index fa4c68049eca..2256dfec5407 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-virtio.c
@@ -358,6 +358,8 @@ static int virtio_spi_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	if (ret)
 		return dev_err_probe(&vdev->dev, ret, "Cannot register virtqueue cleanup\n");
 
+	virtio_device_ready(vdev);
+
 	/* Use devm version to register controller */
 	ret = devm_spi_register_controller(&vdev->dev, ctrl);
 	if (ret)

base-commit: f5098b6bae761e346ebcd9da7f95622c04733cff
-- 
2.50.1


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