The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From abe41184abac487264a4904bfcff2d5500dccce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:42:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] i2c: recovery: if possible send STOP with recovery pulses I2C clients may misunderstand recovery pulses if they can't read SDA to bail out early. In the worst case, as a write operation. To avoid that and if we can write SDA, try to send STOP to avoid the misinterpretation. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c index 31d16ada6e7d..301285c54603 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c @@ -198,7 +198,16 @@ int i2c_generic_scl_recovery(struct i2c_adapter *adap) val = !val; bri->set_scl(adap, val); - ndelay(RECOVERY_NDELAY); + + /* + * If we can set SDA, we will always create STOP here to ensure + * the additional pulses will do no harm. This is achieved by + * letting SDA follow SCL half a cycle later. + */ + ndelay(RECOVERY_NDELAY / 2); + if (bri->set_sda) + bri->set_sda(adap, val); + ndelay(RECOVERY_NDELAY / 2); } /* check if recovery actually succeeded */