From: Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
commit 90b8596ac46043e4a782d9111f5b285251b13756 upstream.
Hans de Goede reported Bluetooth adapters (HCIs) connected over an UART connection failed due corrupted Rx payload. The problem was narrowed down to DMA Rx starting on UART_IIR_THRI interrupt. The problem occurs despite LSR having DR bit set, which is precondition for attempting to start DMA Rx in the first place.
From a debug patch:
[x.807834] 8250irq: iir=cc lsr+saved=60 received=0/15 ier=0f dma_t/rx/err=0/0/0 [x.808676] 8250irq: iir=c2 lsr+saved=61 received=0/0 ier=0f dma_t/rx/err=0/0/0 [x.808776] 8250irq: iir=cc lsr+saved=60 received=1/12 ier=0d dma_t/rx/err=0/1/0 [x.808870] Bluetooth: hci0: Frame reassembly failed (-84)
In the debug snippet, received field indicates 1 byte was transferred over DMA and 12 bytes after that with the non-DMA Rx. The sole byte DMA handled was corrupted (gets zeroed) which leads to the HCI failure.
This problem became apparent after commit e8ffbb71f783 ("serial: 8250: use THRE & __stop_tx also with DMA") changed Tx stop behavior. Tx stop is now triggered from a THRI interrupt.
Despite that this problem looks like a HW bug, this fix is not adding UART_BUG_xx flag to the driver beucase it seems useful in general to avoid starting DMA when there are only a few bytes to transfer. Skipping DMA for small transfers avoids the extra overhead DMA incurs.
Thus, don't setup DMA Rx on UART_IIR_THRI but leave it to a subsequent interrupt which has Rx a related IIR value.
By returning false from handle_rx_dma(), the DMA vs non-DMA decision is postponed until either UART_IIR_RDI (FIFO threshold worth of bytes awaiting) or UART_IIR_TIMEOUT (inter-character timeout) triggers at a later time which allows better to discern whether the number of bytes warrants starting DMA or not.
Reported-by: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Tested-by: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Fixes: e8ffbb71f783 ("serial: 8250: use THRE & __stop_tx also with DMA") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Acked-by: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230317103034.12881-1-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.c... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c @@ -1896,6 +1896,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(serial8250_modem_statu static bool handle_rx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *up, unsigned int iir) { switch (iir & 0x3f) { + case UART_IIR_THRI: + /* + * Postpone DMA or not decision to IIR_RDI or IIR_RX_TIMEOUT + * because it's impossible to do an informed decision about + * that with IIR_THRI. + * + * This also fixes one known DMA Rx corruption issue where + * DR is asserted but DMA Rx only gets a corrupted zero byte + * (too early DR?). + */ + return false; case UART_IIR_RDI: if (!up->dma->rx_running) break;