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<title>linux.git/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c, branch v7.2-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>dt-bindings: serial: rs485: remove deprecated .txt binding stub</title>
<updated>2026-05-22T09:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akash Sukhavasi</name>
<email>akash.sukhavasi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-21T16:21:35+00:00</published>
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The plain text binding file was superseded by the YAML schema in
commit d50f974c4f7f ("dt-bindings: serial: Convert rs485 bindings
to json-schema"). The file now contains only a redirect notice.
Remove it, and update references in serial_core.c and
serial-rs485.rst to point to the YAML schema.

Signed-off-by: Akash Sukhavasi &lt;akash.sukhavasi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521162137.6325-1-akash.sukhavasi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The plain text binding file was superseded by the YAML schema in
commit d50f974c4f7f ("dt-bindings: serial: Convert rs485 bindings
to json-schema"). The file now contains only a redirect notice.
Remove it, and update references in serial_core.c and
serial-rs485.rst to point to the YAML schema.

Signed-off-by: Akash Sukhavasi &lt;akash.sukhavasi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521162137.6325-1-akash.sukhavasi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: 8250: Add support for console flow control</title>
<updated>2026-05-22T09:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T15:27:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The kernel documentation specifies that the console option 'r' can
be used to enable hardware flow control for console writes. The 8250
driver does include code for hardware flow control on the console if
cons_flow is set, but there is no code path that actually sets this.
However, that is not the only issue. The problems are:

1. Specifying the console option 'r' does not lead to cons_flow being
   set.

2. Even if cons_flow would be set, serial8250_register_8250_port()
   clears it.

3. When the console option 'r' is specified, uart_set_options()
   attempts to initialize the port for CRTSCTS. However, afterwards
   it does not set the UPSTAT_CTS_ENABLE status bit and therefore on
   boot, uart_cts_enabled() is always false. This policy bit is
   important for console drivers as a criteria if they may poll CTS.

4. Even though uart_set_options() attempts to initialize the port
   for CRTSCTS, the 8250 set_termios() callback does not enable the
   RTS signal (TIOCM_RTS) and thus the hardware is not properly
   initialized for CTS polling.

5. Even if modem control was properly setup for CTS polling
   (TIOCM_RTS), uart_configure_port() clears TIOCM_RTS, thus
   breaking CTS polling.

6. wait_for_xmitr() and serial8250_console_write() use cons_flow
   to decide if CTS polling should occur. However, the condition
   should also include a check that it is not in RS485 mode and
   CRTSCTS is actually enabled in the hardware.

Address all these issues as conservatively as possible by gating them
behind checks focussed on the user specifying console hardware flow
control support and the hardware being configured for CTS polling
at the time of the write to the UART.

Since checking the UPSTAT_CTS_ENABLE status bit is a part of the new
condition gate, these changes also support runtime termios updates to
disable/enable CRTSCTS.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511152706.151498-4-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The kernel documentation specifies that the console option 'r' can
be used to enable hardware flow control for console writes. The 8250
driver does include code for hardware flow control on the console if
cons_flow is set, but there is no code path that actually sets this.
However, that is not the only issue. The problems are:

1. Specifying the console option 'r' does not lead to cons_flow being
   set.

2. Even if cons_flow would be set, serial8250_register_8250_port()
   clears it.

3. When the console option 'r' is specified, uart_set_options()
   attempts to initialize the port for CRTSCTS. However, afterwards
   it does not set the UPSTAT_CTS_ENABLE status bit and therefore on
   boot, uart_cts_enabled() is always false. This policy bit is
   important for console drivers as a criteria if they may poll CTS.

4. Even though uart_set_options() attempts to initialize the port
   for CRTSCTS, the 8250 set_termios() callback does not enable the
   RTS signal (TIOCM_RTS) and thus the hardware is not properly
   initialized for CTS polling.

5. Even if modem control was properly setup for CTS polling
   (TIOCM_RTS), uart_configure_port() clears TIOCM_RTS, thus
   breaking CTS polling.

6. wait_for_xmitr() and serial8250_console_write() use cons_flow
   to decide if CTS polling should occur. However, the condition
   should also include a check that it is not in RS485 mode and
   CRTSCTS is actually enabled in the hardware.

Address all these issues as conservatively as possible by gating them
behind checks focussed on the user specifying console hardware flow
control support and the hardware being configured for CTS polling
at the time of the write to the UART.

Since checking the UPSTAT_CTS_ENABLE status bit is a part of the new
condition gate, these changes also support runtime termios updates to
disable/enable CRTSCTS.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511152706.151498-4-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: core: prevent division by zero by always returning non-zero baud rate</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T15:19:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugo Villeneuve</name>
<email>hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-10T15:20:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=091ea8e5d34e1dca5d8f30127173b949e3f803ce'/>
<id>091ea8e5d34e1dca5d8f30127173b949e3f803ce</id>
<content type='text'>
If a device has a minimum baud rate &gt; 9600 bauds, and a new termios baud
rate of 0 (hang up) is requested, uart_get_baud_rate() will return 0.
Most drivers do not check this return value and call uart_update_timeout()
with this zero baud rate, which will trigger a "Division by zero in kernel"
fault:

  stty -F /dev/ttySC0 0

  Division by zero in kernel.
  ...

Fix by returning the larger of 9600 or min for the B0 case. This now
ensures that a non-zero baud rate is returned, and greatly simplifies the
code.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve &lt;hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410152022.2146488-6-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
If a device has a minimum baud rate &gt; 9600 bauds, and a new termios baud
rate of 0 (hang up) is requested, uart_get_baud_rate() will return 0.
Most drivers do not check this return value and call uart_update_timeout()
with this zero baud rate, which will trigger a "Division by zero in kernel"
fault:

  stty -F /dev/ttySC0 0

  Division by zero in kernel.
  ...

Fix by returning the larger of 9600 or min for the B0 case. This now
ensures that a non-zero baud rate is returned, and greatly simplifies the
code.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve &lt;hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410152022.2146488-6-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: core: simplify clipping logic in uart_get_baud_rate()</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T15:19:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugo Villeneuve</name>
<email>hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-10T15:20:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1097aedec77674fe4f08f40b3f0bac26ea437fc0'/>
<id>1097aedec77674fe4f08f40b3f0bac26ea437fc0</id>
<content type='text'>
Simplify the clipping logic in uart_get_baud_rate() to improve code
readability.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve &lt;hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410152022.2146488-5-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Simplify the clipping logic in uart_get_baud_rate() to improve code
readability.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve &lt;hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410152022.2146488-5-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: core: update uart_get_baud_rate() obsolete comments</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T15:19:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugo Villeneuve</name>
<email>hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-10T15:20:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2f0c8853109bca54ac28e33659ce600ceb45ff12'/>
<id>2f0c8853109bca54ac28e33659ce600ceb45ff12</id>
<content type='text'>
Update obsolete comments to match the actual code.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve &lt;hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410152022.2146488-4-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Update obsolete comments to match the actual code.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve &lt;hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410152022.2146488-4-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: core: fix infinite loop in handle_tx() for PORT_UNKNOWN</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T14:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiayuan Chen</name>
<email>jiayuan.chen@shopee.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-04T07:43:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=455ce986fa356ff43a43c0d363ba95fa152f21d5'/>
<id>455ce986fa356ff43a43c0d363ba95fa152f21d5</id>
<content type='text'>
uart_write_room() and uart_write() behave inconsistently when
xmit_buf is NULL (which happens for PORT_UNKNOWN ports that were
never properly initialized):

- uart_write_room() returns kfifo_avail() which can be &gt; 0
- uart_write() checks xmit_buf and returns 0 if NULL

This inconsistency causes an infinite loop in drivers that rely on
tty_write_room() to determine if they can write:

  while (tty_write_room(tty) &gt; 0) {
      written = tty-&gt;ops-&gt;write(...);
      // written is always 0, loop never exits
  }

For example, caif_serial's handle_tx() enters an infinite loop when
used with PORT_UNKNOWN serial ports, causing system hangs.

Fix by making uart_write_room() also check xmit_buf and return 0 if
it's NULL, consistent with uart_write().

Reproducer: https://gist.github.com/mrpre/d9a694cc0e19828ee3bc3b37983fde13

Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@shopee.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204074327.226165-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
uart_write_room() and uart_write() behave inconsistently when
xmit_buf is NULL (which happens for PORT_UNKNOWN ports that were
never properly initialized):

- uart_write_room() returns kfifo_avail() which can be &gt; 0
- uart_write() checks xmit_buf and returns 0 if NULL

This inconsistency causes an infinite loop in drivers that rely on
tty_write_room() to determine if they can write:

  while (tty_write_room(tty) &gt; 0) {
      written = tty-&gt;ops-&gt;write(...);
      // written is always 0, loop never exits
  }

For example, caif_serial's handle_tx() enters an infinite loop when
used with PORT_UNKNOWN serial ports, causing system hangs.

Fix by making uart_write_room() also check xmit_buf and return 0 if
it's NULL, consistent with uart_write().

Reproducer: https://gist.github.com/mrpre/d9a694cc0e19828ee3bc3b37983fde13

Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@shopee.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204074327.226165-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=32a92f8c89326985e05dce8b22d3f0aa07a3e1bd'/>
<id>32a92f8c89326985e05dce8b22d3f0aa07a3e1bd</id>
<content type='text'>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43'/>
<id>bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43</id>
<content type='text'>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f'/>
<id>69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f</id>
<content type='text'>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: Fix not set tty-&gt;port race condition</title>
<updated>2026-01-23T16:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Kozlowski</name>
<email>krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-23T07:21:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=32f37e57583f869140cff445feedeea8a5fea986'/>
<id>32f37e57583f869140cff445feedeea8a5fea986</id>
<content type='text'>
Revert commit bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant
tty_port_link_device()") because the tty_port_link_device() is not
redundant: the tty-&gt;port has to be confured before we call
uart_configure_port(), otherwise user-space can open console without TTY
linked to the driver.

This tty_port_link_device() was added explicitly to avoid this exact
issue in commit fb2b90014d78 ("tty: link tty and port before configuring
it as console"), so offending commit basically reverted the fix saying
it is redundant without addressing the actual race condition presented
there.

Reproducible always as tty-&gt;port warning on Qualcomm SoC with most of
devices disabled, so with very fast boot, and one serial device being
the console:

  printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
  printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
  printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
  printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  tty_init_dev: ttyMSM driver does not set tty-&gt;port. This would crash the kernel. Fix the driver!
  WARNING: drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 at tty_init_dev.part.0+0x228/0x25c, CPU#2: systemd/1
  Modules linked in: socinfo tcsrcc_eliza gcc_eliza sm3_ce fuse ipv6
  CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G S                  6.19.0-rc4-next-20260108-00024-g2202f4d30aa8 #73 PREEMPT
  Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
  Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Eliza (DT)
  ...
  tty_init_dev.part.0 (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 (discriminator 11)) (P)
  tty_open (arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h:95 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120 (discriminator 3))
  chrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:411)
  do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:962)
  vfs_open (fs/open.c:1094)
  do_open (fs/namei.c:4634)
  path_openat (fs/namei.c:4793)
  do_filp_open (fs/namei.c:4820)
  do_sys_openat2 (fs/open.c:1391 (discriminator 3))
  ...
  Starting Network Name Resolution...

Apparently the flow with this small Yocto-based ramdisk user-space is:

driver (qcom_geni_serial.c):                  user-space:
============================                  ===========
qcom_geni_serial_probe()
 uart_add_one_port()
  serial_core_register_port()
   serial_core_add_one_port()
    uart_configure_port()
     register_console()
    |
    |                                         open console
    |                                          ...
    |                                          tty_init_dev()
    |                                           driver-&gt;ports[idx] is NULL
    |
    tty_port_register_device_attr_serdev()
     tty_port_link_device() &lt;- set driver-&gt;ports[idx]

Fixes: bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant tty_port_link_device()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123072139.53293-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Revert commit bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant
tty_port_link_device()") because the tty_port_link_device() is not
redundant: the tty-&gt;port has to be confured before we call
uart_configure_port(), otherwise user-space can open console without TTY
linked to the driver.

This tty_port_link_device() was added explicitly to avoid this exact
issue in commit fb2b90014d78 ("tty: link tty and port before configuring
it as console"), so offending commit basically reverted the fix saying
it is redundant without addressing the actual race condition presented
there.

Reproducible always as tty-&gt;port warning on Qualcomm SoC with most of
devices disabled, so with very fast boot, and one serial device being
the console:

  printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
  printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
  printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
  printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  tty_init_dev: ttyMSM driver does not set tty-&gt;port. This would crash the kernel. Fix the driver!
  WARNING: drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 at tty_init_dev.part.0+0x228/0x25c, CPU#2: systemd/1
  Modules linked in: socinfo tcsrcc_eliza gcc_eliza sm3_ce fuse ipv6
  CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G S                  6.19.0-rc4-next-20260108-00024-g2202f4d30aa8 #73 PREEMPT
  Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
  Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Eliza (DT)
  ...
  tty_init_dev.part.0 (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 (discriminator 11)) (P)
  tty_open (arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h:95 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120 (discriminator 3))
  chrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:411)
  do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:962)
  vfs_open (fs/open.c:1094)
  do_open (fs/namei.c:4634)
  path_openat (fs/namei.c:4793)
  do_filp_open (fs/namei.c:4820)
  do_sys_openat2 (fs/open.c:1391 (discriminator 3))
  ...
  Starting Network Name Resolution...

Apparently the flow with this small Yocto-based ramdisk user-space is:

driver (qcom_geni_serial.c):                  user-space:
============================                  ===========
qcom_geni_serial_probe()
 uart_add_one_port()
  serial_core_register_port()
   serial_core_add_one_port()
    uart_configure_port()
     register_console()
    |
    |                                         open console
    |                                          ...
    |                                          tty_init_dev()
    |                                           driver-&gt;ports[idx] is NULL
    |
    tty_port_register_device_attr_serdev()
     tty_port_link_device() &lt;- set driver-&gt;ports[idx]

Fixes: bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant tty_port_link_device()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123072139.53293-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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