On Fri Jul 10 11:53:17 2026 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> The Tegra CEC hardware has a bug where, if the first attempt
> to transmit a message is NACKed so the transmit is aborted,
> then the second attempt can contain corrupt data.
> 
> Ensure that the full message is always transmitted to avoid hitting
> this bug.
> 
> I suspect some internal state is not reset in the case of aborting
> a message due to a NACK.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Mikko Perttunen <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

Patch committed.

Thanks,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab

 drivers/media/cec/platform/tegra/tegra_cec.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

---

diff --git a/drivers/media/cec/platform/tegra/tegra_cec.c 
b/drivers/media/cec/platform/tegra/tegra_cec.c
index fe66336e734f..f8ffaeb78118 100644
--- a/drivers/media/cec/platform/tegra/tegra_cec.c
+++ b/drivers/media/cec/platform/tegra/tegra_cec.c
@@ -243,7 +243,18 @@ static int tegra_cec_adap_enable(struct cec_adapter *adap, 
bool enable)
                  TEGRA_CEC_INT_MASK_RX_REGISTER_FULL |
                  TEGRA_CEC_INT_MASK_RX_START_BIT_DETECTED);
 
-       cec_write(cec, TEGRA_CEC_HW_CONTROL, TEGRA_CEC_HWCTRL_TX_RX_MODE);
+       /*
+        * TX_NAK_MODE ensures that the whole message is transmitted even
+        * if each byte is NACKed. Without this flag the retransmit of the
+        * messages after a NACK can be corrupt. This is a bug in the hardware.
+        *
+        * While less efficient, in practice you rarely transmit messages
+        * that can be NACKed, with the exception of POLL messages which
+        * are just one byte anyway.
+        */
+       cec_write(cec, TEGRA_CEC_HW_CONTROL,
+                 TEGRA_CEC_HWCTRL_TX_RX_MODE |
+                 TEGRA_CEC_HWCTRL_TX_NAK_MODE);
        return 0;
 }
 
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