Re: [PATCH v2] i3c: dw: Prevent premature transfer completion on IBI

[Frank Li <Frank.li@oss.nxp.com>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 05:05:38PM +0800, Rui Wang wrote:
> An IBI threshold interrupt can arrive while a transfer is pending and
> before its command responses are ready. The IRQ handler calls
> dw_i3c_master_end_xfer_locked() even for an IBI-only interrupt. If the
> response queue is empty, the function completes the transfer with a
> return value of zero. Later responses can remain unconsumed and keep the
> response-ready interrupt asserted.
>
> Only call the transfer completion handler when INTR_MASTER_MASK
> indicates that responses are ready or a transfer error has occurred.
> An IBI-only interrupt leaves the transfer pending.
>
> The fix was tested successfully on FPGA hardware.
>
> Fixes: e389b1d72a624 ("i3c: dw: Add support for in-band interrupts")
> Signed-off-by: Rui Wang <wr574332525@163.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>

> Changes in v2
> - Use Rui Wang in the author and sign-off fields.
>
> The possible queue stall reported by Sashiko is in the timeout recovery
> path and predates this patch. If I can reproduce it, I'll send a
> separate fix.
>
>  drivers/i3c/master/dw-i3c-master.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/dw-i3c-master.c b/drivers/i3c/master/dw-i3c-master.c
> index 34aa8f8..19735ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/i3c/master/dw-i3c-master.c
> +++ b/drivers/i3c/master/dw-i3c-master.c
> @@ -1527,7 +1527,8 @@ static irqreturn_t dw_i3c_master_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  	}
>
>  	spin_lock(&master->xferqueue.lock);
> -	dw_i3c_master_end_xfer_locked(master, status);
> +	if (status & INTR_MASTER_MASK)
> +		dw_i3c_master_end_xfer_locked(master, status);
>  	if (status & INTR_TRANSFER_ERR_STAT)
>  		writel(INTR_TRANSFER_ERR_STAT, master->regs + INTR_STATUS);
>  	spin_unlock(&master->xferqueue.lock);
>
> base-commit: 7475ea8b58616b33c04afb976cf0fbaad9dd63fb
> --
> 2.53.0.windows.2
>