The intended move from wait_for_completion_*() to wait_for_completion_interruptible_*() was to allow (very) long spi memory transfers to be stopped upon user request instead of freezing the machine forever as the timeout value could now be significantly bigger. However, depending on the user logic, applications can receive many signals for their own "internal" purpose and have nothing to do with the requested kernel operations, hence interrupting spi transfers upon any signal is probably not a wise choice. Instead, let's switch to wait_for_completion_killable_*() to only catch the "important" signals. This was likely the intended behavior anyway. Fixes: e0205d6203c2 ("spi: atmel: Prevent false timeouts on long transfers") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello Ronald, this is only compile tested, please let me know if that fixes your use case or if you still suffer from interrupted transfers. Thanks! --- drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c b/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c index 6aa8adbe4170..2e8860865af9 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c @@ -1336,8 +1336,8 @@ static int atmel_spi_one_transfer(struct spi_controller *host, } dma_timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(spi_controller_xfer_timeout(host, xfer)); - ret_timeout = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(&as->xfer_completion, - dma_timeout); + ret_timeout = wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(&as->xfer_completion, + dma_timeout); if (ret_timeout <= 0) { dev_err(&spi->dev, "spi transfer %s\n", !ret_timeout ? "timeout" : "canceled"); -- 2.34.1