On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:04:21AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Currently, SynQuacerI2cStartRequest() increases the TPL to TPL_HIGH_LEVEL
> while accessing the I2C controller hardware, but fails to restore the TPL
> to the original level if the call to SynQuacerI2cMasterStart() fails, and
> returns right away. Given the TPL_HIGH_LEVEL implies that interrupts are
> disabled, this results in a complete system hang. So instead, break out
> of the loop, so that the TPL restore will occur before leaving the
> function.
> 
> Note that this will result in the bus control bits to be de-asserted in
> case of a failure to send the START condition, which is an appropriate
> cleanup action to take after SynQuacerI2cMasterStart() fails.
> 
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>

> ---
> v2: clarify comment and commit log to explain that releasing the bus controls
>     is an appropriate action for this failure mode
> 
>  Silicon/Socionext/SynQuacer/Drivers/SynQuacerI2cDxe/SynQuacerI2cDxe.c | 4 
> ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git 
> a/Silicon/Socionext/SynQuacer/Drivers/SynQuacerI2cDxe/SynQuacerI2cDxe.c 
> b/Silicon/Socionext/SynQuacer/Drivers/SynQuacerI2cDxe/SynQuacerI2cDxe.c
> index 46c512a20151..5e70f9d921c3 100644
> --- a/Silicon/Socionext/SynQuacer/Drivers/SynQuacerI2cDxe/SynQuacerI2cDxe.c
> +++ b/Silicon/Socionext/SynQuacer/Drivers/SynQuacerI2cDxe/SynQuacerI2cDxe.c
> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ SynQuacerI2cStartRequest (
>  
>      Status = SynQuacerI2cMasterStart (I2c, SlaveAddress, Op);
>      if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
> -      return Status;
> +      break;
>      }
>  
>      Status = WaitForInterrupt (I2c);
> @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ SynQuacerI2cStartRequest (
>      } while (BufIdx < Op->LengthInBytes);
>    }
>  
> -  // Stop the transfer
> +  // Force bus state to idle, terminating any ongoing transfer
>    MmioWrite8 (I2c->MmioBase + F_I2C_REG_BCR, 0);
>  
>    if (!AtRuntime) {
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
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