[PATCH v4 3/3] PCI: Disable broken bus reset on Qualcomm devices

From: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez

Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 09:01:12 EST


Some Qualcomm PCIe devices do not properly support Secondary Bus Reset
(SBR). These devices have no FLR capability and advertise NoSoftRst+
(blocking PM reset), leaving bus reset as the only available method.
However, bus reset does not work reliably for these devices.

The problem manifests in VFIO passthrough scenarios with these affected
devices:

- ath11k WiFi (17cb:1103): Normal VM operation works fine, including
clean shutdown/reboot. However, when the VM terminates uncleanly
(crash, force-off), VFIO attempts to reset the device before it can
be assigned to another VM. Without a working reset method, the device
remains in an undefined state, preventing reuse.

- ath12k WiFi (17cb:1107): Same behavior as ath11k.

- SDX62/SDX65 5G modems (17cb:0308): Never successfully initialize even
on first VM assignment without proper reset capability.

Disable bus reset for these devices (following the pattern of other
Atheros/Qualcomm devices) so alternative reset methods (d3cold or soft)
are used instead, which provide working reset capability.

Signed-off-by: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4: Quirk code unchanged from v3
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260513122349.268753-2-jtornosm@xxxxxxxxxx/

drivers/pci/quirks.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
index 000000000000..111111111111 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
@@ -3789,6 +3789,9 @@ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0030, quirk_no_bus_reset);
DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0032, quirk_no_bus_reset);
DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x003c, quirk_no_bus_reset);
DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0033, quirk_no_bus_reset);
DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0034, quirk_no_bus_reset);
DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x003e, quirk_no_bus_reset);
+DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_QCOM, 0x1103, quirk_no_bus_reset); /* ath11k */
+DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_QCOM, 0x1107, quirk_no_bus_reset); /* ath12k */
+DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_QCOM, 0x0308, quirk_no_bus_reset); /* SDX62/SDX65 */

/*
* Root port on some Cavium CN8xxx chips do not successfully complete a bus
--
2.53.0