From 6415a827951c2676cc2cf0188fbdbc0c994048a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Elwell Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:30:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] spi: bcm2835: Workaround/fix for zero-length transfers A relatively recent commit ([1]) contained optimisation for the PIO SPI FIFO-filling functions. The commit message includes the phrase "[t]he blind and counted loops are always called with nonzero count". This is technically true, but it is still possible for count to become zero before the loop is entered - if tfr->len is zero. Moving the loop exit condition to the end of the loop saves a few cycles, but results in a near-infinite loop should the revised count be zero on entry. Strangely, zero-lengthed transfers aren't filtered by the SPI framework and, even more strangely, the Python3 spidev library is triggering them for no obvious reason. Avoid the problem completely by bailing out of the main transfer function early if trf->len is zero, although there may be a case for moving the mitigation into the framework. See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4100 Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell [1] 26751de25d25 ("spi: bcm2835: Micro-optimise FIFO loops") --- drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c @@ -1055,6 +1055,16 @@ static int bcm2835_spi_transfer_one(stru unsigned long hz_per_byte, byte_limit; u32 cs = slv->prepare_cs; + if (unlikely(!tfr->len)) { + static int warned; + + if (!warned) + dev_warn(&spi->dev, + "zero-length SPI transfer ignored\n"); + warned = 1; + return 0; + } + /* set clock */ spi_hz = tfr->speed_hz;