diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/common.h b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/common.h
index c46dc5215af7..00b165d1f502 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/common.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/common.h
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ void shmem_fetch_notification(struct scmi_shared_mem __iomem *shmem,
 void shmem_clear_channel(struct scmi_shared_mem __iomem *shmem);
 bool shmem_poll_done(struct scmi_shared_mem __iomem *shmem,
 		     struct scmi_xfer *xfer);
+bool shmem_channel_free(struct scmi_shared_mem __iomem *shmem);
 
 /* declarations for message passing transports */
 struct scmi_msg_payld;
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c
index 19246ed1f01f..b8d470417e8f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c
@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ static void rx_callback(struct mbox_client *cl, void *m)
 {
 	struct scmi_mailbox *smbox = client_to_scmi_mailbox(cl);
 
+	/*
+	 * An A2P IRQ is NOT valid when received while the platform still has
+	 * the ownership of the channel, because the platform at first releases
+	 * the SMT channel and then sends the completion interrupt.
+	 *
+	 * This addresses a possible race condition in which a spurious IRQ from
+	 * a previous timed-out reply which arrived late could be wrongly
+	 * associated with the next pending transaction.
+	 */
+	if (cl->knows_txdone && !shmem_channel_free(smbox->shmem)) {
+		dev_warn(smbox->cinfo->dev, "Ignoring spurious A2P IRQ !\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	scmi_rx_callback(smbox->cinfo, shmem_read_header(smbox->shmem), NULL);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/shmem.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/shmem.c
index 87b4f4d35f06..517d52fb3bcb 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/shmem.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/shmem.c
@@ -122,3 +122,9 @@ bool shmem_poll_done(struct scmi_shared_mem __iomem *shmem,
 		(SCMI_SHMEM_CHAN_STAT_CHANNEL_ERROR |
 		 SCMI_SHMEM_CHAN_STAT_CHANNEL_FREE);
 }
+
+bool shmem_channel_free(struct scmi_shared_mem __iomem *shmem)
+{
+	return (ioread32(&shmem->channel_status) &
+			SCMI_SHMEM_CHAN_STAT_CHANNEL_FREE);
+}