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<title>linux.git/drivers/tty/vt, branch v7.3-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions</title>
<updated>2026-09-05T04:37:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees+treewide@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-02T22:31:14+00:00</published>
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This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci

This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.

Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees+treewide@kernel.org&gt;
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This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci

This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.

Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees+treewide@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T17:59:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-25T17:59:12+00:00</published>
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Pull TTY / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of tty and serial driver updates for 7.3-rc1.

  Not really all that much happened this development cycle for this
  subsystem, changes in here are:

   - removal of the ipwireless driver as it's no longer used or needed

   - new 8250_mxpcie driver added

   - qcom serial driver updates and additions

   - vt mode validation addition

   - lots of other small serial driver updates and additions

  All of these have been in linux-next for weeks with no reported issues"

* tag 'tty-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (97 commits)
  serial: imx: serialize imx_uart_ports[] lifetime
  tty: clear cdev pointer after cdev_add() failure
  tty: skip cdev_del() when no cdev is registered
  serial: core: clear freed pointers on uart_register_driver() failure
  serial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: implement rx_trig_bytes callbacks via MUEx50 RTL
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: introduce per-port private data structure
  serial: 8250: allow UART drivers to override rx_trig_bytes handling
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: add break support for RS485 using MUEx50 features
  serial: 8250: allow low-level drivers to override break control
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: support serial interface mode switching
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: speed up TX using memory-mapped FIFO window
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: speed up RX using memory-mapped FIFO window
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: add custom handle_irq callback
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: offload XON/XOFF flow control to MUEx50 hardware
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: enable automatic RTS/CTS flow control
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: enable enhanced mode and program FIFO trigger levels
  serial: 8250: add Moxa MUEx50 UART port type
  serial: 8250: split Moxa PCIe serial board support out of 8250_pci
  serial: qcom-geni: Use geni_se_set_perf_level() for baud rate perf level
  ...
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Pull TTY / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of tty and serial driver updates for 7.3-rc1.

  Not really all that much happened this development cycle for this
  subsystem, changes in here are:

   - removal of the ipwireless driver as it's no longer used or needed

   - new 8250_mxpcie driver added

   - qcom serial driver updates and additions

   - vt mode validation addition

   - lots of other small serial driver updates and additions

  All of these have been in linux-next for weeks with no reported issues"

* tag 'tty-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (97 commits)
  serial: imx: serialize imx_uart_ports[] lifetime
  tty: clear cdev pointer after cdev_add() failure
  tty: skip cdev_del() when no cdev is registered
  serial: core: clear freed pointers on uart_register_driver() failure
  serial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: implement rx_trig_bytes callbacks via MUEx50 RTL
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: introduce per-port private data structure
  serial: 8250: allow UART drivers to override rx_trig_bytes handling
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: add break support for RS485 using MUEx50 features
  serial: 8250: allow low-level drivers to override break control
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: support serial interface mode switching
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: speed up TX using memory-mapped FIFO window
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: speed up RX using memory-mapped FIFO window
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: add custom handle_irq callback
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: offload XON/XOFF flow control to MUEx50 hardware
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: enable automatic RTS/CTS flow control
  serial: 8250_mxpcie: enable enhanced mode and program FIFO trigger levels
  serial: 8250: add Moxa MUEx50 UART port type
  serial: 8250: split Moxa PCIe serial board support out of 8250_pci
  serial: qcom-geni: Use geni_se_set_perf_level() for baud rate perf level
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vt: add permission check for KDSKBMETA ioctl</title>
<updated>2026-08-03T14:31:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joshua Rogers</name>
<email>linux@joshua.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-31T07:56:17+00:00</published>
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KDSKBMETA modifies keyboard meta mode but lacks the !perm check that all
other keyboard setter ioctls in vt_k_ioctl() enforce, allowing a process
to change meta mode on a non-controlling console without authorization.

Assisted-by: AISLE:Snapshot
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joshua Rogers &lt;linux@joshua.hu&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-tty-vt-stuff-v1-2-be99b9da8e30@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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KDSKBMETA modifies keyboard meta mode but lacks the !perm check that all
other keyboard setter ioctls in vt_k_ioctl() enforce, allowing a process
to change meta mode on a non-controlling console without authorization.

Assisted-by: AISLE:Snapshot
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joshua Rogers &lt;linux@joshua.hu&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-tty-vt-stuff-v1-2-be99b9da8e30@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vt: stabilize tty reference in kbd_keycode with tty_port_tty_get</title>
<updated>2026-08-03T14:31:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joshua Rogers</name>
<email>linux@joshua.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-31T07:56:16+00:00</published>
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kbd_keycode() reads vc-&gt;port.tty without acquiring a tty reference,
racing against con_shutdown() which clears port.tty under a different
lock. Use tty_port_tty_get()/tty_kref_put() to hold a proper reference
for the duration the tty pointer is needed.

Assisted-by: AISLE:Snapshot
Signed-off-by: Joshua Rogers &lt;linux@joshua.hu&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-tty-vt-stuff-v1-1-be99b9da8e30@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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kbd_keycode() reads vc-&gt;port.tty without acquiring a tty reference,
racing against con_shutdown() which clears port.tty under a different
lock. Use tty_port_tty_get()/tty_kref_put() to hold a proper reference
for the duration the tty pointer is needed.

Assisted-by: AISLE:Snapshot
Signed-off-by: Joshua Rogers &lt;linux@joshua.hu&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-tty-vt-stuff-v1-1-be99b9da8e30@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vt: add mode validation in vt_setactivate</title>
<updated>2026-07-31T13:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Zihan</name>
<email>jiyu03@qq.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-02T19:46:15+00:00</published>
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The vt_setactivate() function accepts any mode value without validation,
while VT_SETMODE correctly rejects invalid values (only VT_AUTO and
VT_PROCESS are valid).

This allows users to set invalid mode values (e.g., 0xFF) which bypasses
VT_PROCESS signal handling and causes undefined VT switching behavior.

Fix this by adding the same validation as VT_SETMODE.

Signed-off-by: Wang Zihan &lt;jiyu03@qq.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_6A7DAE2E1288663D23AACBE2950D6E535007@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The vt_setactivate() function accepts any mode value without validation,
while VT_SETMODE correctly rejects invalid values (only VT_AUTO and
VT_PROCESS are valid).

This allows users to set invalid mode values (e.g., 0xFF) which bypasses
VT_PROCESS signal handling and causes undefined VT switching behavior.

Fix this by adding the same validation as VT_SETMODE.

Signed-off-by: Wang Zihan &lt;jiyu03@qq.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_6A7DAE2E1288663D23AACBE2950D6E535007@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge 7.2-rc3 into tty-next</title>
<updated>2026-07-13T05:11:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-13T05:11:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c1d4ce2d9eaeccd7e8aef7ec1109df49eaf4f503'/>
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We need the tty/serial fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We need the tty/serial fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vt: fix spurious modifier in CSI/cursor key sequences</title>
<updated>2026-07-10T12:46:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>npitre@baylibre.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-26T02:48:33+00:00</published>
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csi_modifier_param() builds the xterm modifier parameter from
shift_state, counting KG_SHIFTL/KG_SHIFTR as Shift, KG_ALTGR as Alt
and KG_CTRLL/KG_CTRLR as Ctrl in addition to the canonical KG_SHIFT,
KG_ALT and KG_CTRL.

That is wrong when those weights are not plain modifiers. Keymaps
derived from XKB layouts (by kbd's xkbsupport, and by the
console-setup used in Debian, Ubuntu and others) encode the active
layout group using KG_SHIFTL/KG_SHIFTR:

	group 1: -
	group 2: shiftl
	group 3: shiftr
	group 4: shiftl | shiftr

So while a non-default layout group is selected, KG_SHIFTL and/or
KG_SHIFTR are set in shift_state with no Shift key held.
csi_modifier_param() then adds a spurious Shift to every cursor and
CSI key: pressing Up while group 2 is active emits ESC[1;2A (Shift+Up)
instead of ESC[A. KG_ALTGR has the same problem since it is the
standard third-level selector.

Normal keymaps bind the physical Shift/Ctrl/Alt keys to KG_SHIFT,
KG_CTRL and KG_ALT, leaving the left/right and AltGr weights free for
layout and level selection. Count only those canonical weights, so
genuine modifiers are still encoded while layout/level selectors are
not.

Fixes: 4af70f151671 ("vt: add modifier support to cursor keys")
Reported-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kbd/aj2gR0Y7sM6i9s2G@example.org/
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;npitre@baylibre.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260626024833.3419086-1-nico@fluxnic.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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csi_modifier_param() builds the xterm modifier parameter from
shift_state, counting KG_SHIFTL/KG_SHIFTR as Shift, KG_ALTGR as Alt
and KG_CTRLL/KG_CTRLR as Ctrl in addition to the canonical KG_SHIFT,
KG_ALT and KG_CTRL.

That is wrong when those weights are not plain modifiers. Keymaps
derived from XKB layouts (by kbd's xkbsupport, and by the
console-setup used in Debian, Ubuntu and others) encode the active
layout group using KG_SHIFTL/KG_SHIFTR:

	group 1: -
	group 2: shiftl
	group 3: shiftr
	group 4: shiftl | shiftr

So while a non-default layout group is selected, KG_SHIFTL and/or
KG_SHIFTR are set in shift_state with no Shift key held.
csi_modifier_param() then adds a spurious Shift to every cursor and
CSI key: pressing Up while group 2 is active emits ESC[1;2A (Shift+Up)
instead of ESC[A. KG_ALTGR has the same problem since it is the
standard third-level selector.

Normal keymaps bind the physical Shift/Ctrl/Alt keys to KG_SHIFT,
KG_CTRL and KG_ALT, leaving the left/right and AltGr weights free for
layout and level selection. Count only those canonical weights, so
genuine modifiers are still encoded while layout/level selectors are
not.

Fixes: 4af70f151671 ("vt: add modifier support to cursor keys")
Reported-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kbd/aj2gR0Y7sM6i9s2G@example.org/
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;npitre@baylibre.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260626024833.3419086-1-nico@fluxnic.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vc_screen: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc()</title>
<updated>2026-07-07T15:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T10:24:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=de96e8b27b82dc2c773ca3f53bae7bad6e233055'/>
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vcs_read() and vcs_write() allocate staging buffers with
__get_free_pages().

These buffers can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
about them to go directly to the page allocator.

kmalloc() provides a better API that does not require ugly casts and it's a
modern way of saying "I need a page-sized buffer"

Replace use of __get_free_page() with kmalloc() and drop unused now
DEFINE_FREE(free_page_ptr ...)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/700c5a5f-3128-4671-99aa-827ca73f5cdf@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528-b4-tty-v1-4-9da9f7aec5f2@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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vcs_read() and vcs_write() allocate staging buffers with
__get_free_pages().

These buffers can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
about them to go directly to the page allocator.

kmalloc() provides a better API that does not require ugly casts and it's a
modern way of saying "I need a page-sized buffer"

Replace use of __get_free_page() with kmalloc() and drop unused now
DEFINE_FREE(free_page_ptr ...)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/700c5a5f-3128-4671-99aa-827ca73f5cdf@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528-b4-tty-v1-4-9da9f7aec5f2@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2026-06-22T18:51:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-22T18:51:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8a500fd09385a13ba598cda651f2e4ac40bfa578'/>
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Pull tty / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of TTY and Serial driver updates for 7.2-rc1.

  Overall we end up removing more code than added, due to an obsolete
  synclink_gt driver being removed from the tree, always a nice thing to
  see happen.

  Other than that driver removal, major things included in here are:

   - max310x serial driver updates and fixes

   - 8250 driver updates and rework in places to make it more "modern"

   - dts file updates

   - serial driver core tweaks and updates

   - vt code cleanups

   - vc_screen crash fixes

   - other minor driver updates and cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for well over a week with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'tty-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (49 commits)
  serial: 8250_pci: Don't specify conflicting values to pci_device_id members
  vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write
  serial: qcom_geni: Fix RX DMA stall when SE_DMA_RX_LEN_IN is zero
  vt: merge ucs_is_zero_width()/ucs_is_double_width() into ucs_get_width()
  serial: 8250: fix possible ISR soft lockup
  dt-bindings: serial: rs485: remove deprecated .txt binding stub
  serial: qcom-geni: trace: Add tracepoint support for Qualcomm GENI serial
  tty: serial: Use named initializers for arrays of i2c_device_data
  serial: 8250_dw: remove clock-notifier infrastructure
  serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails
  amba/serial: amba-pl011: Bring back zx29 UART support
  serial: 8250: Add support for console flow control
  serial: 8250: Check LSR timeout on console flow control
  serial: 8250: Set cons_flow on port registration
  tty: serial: 8250: protect against NULL uart-&gt;port.dev in register
  arm64: dts: add support for A9 based Amlogic BY401
  dt-bindings: arm: amlogic: add A311Y3 support
  serial: max310x: fix compile errors if CONFIG_SPI_MASTER is disabled
  serial: qcom-geni: Avoid probing debug console UART without console support
  serial: max310x: add comments for PLL limits
  ...
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Pull tty / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of TTY and Serial driver updates for 7.2-rc1.

  Overall we end up removing more code than added, due to an obsolete
  synclink_gt driver being removed from the tree, always a nice thing to
  see happen.

  Other than that driver removal, major things included in here are:

   - max310x serial driver updates and fixes

   - 8250 driver updates and rework in places to make it more "modern"

   - dts file updates

   - serial driver core tweaks and updates

   - vt code cleanups

   - vc_screen crash fixes

   - other minor driver updates and cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for well over a week with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'tty-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (49 commits)
  serial: 8250_pci: Don't specify conflicting values to pci_device_id members
  vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write
  serial: qcom_geni: Fix RX DMA stall when SE_DMA_RX_LEN_IN is zero
  vt: merge ucs_is_zero_width()/ucs_is_double_width() into ucs_get_width()
  serial: 8250: fix possible ISR soft lockup
  dt-bindings: serial: rs485: remove deprecated .txt binding stub
  serial: qcom-geni: trace: Add tracepoint support for Qualcomm GENI serial
  tty: serial: Use named initializers for arrays of i2c_device_data
  serial: 8250_dw: remove clock-notifier infrastructure
  serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails
  amba/serial: amba-pl011: Bring back zx29 UART support
  serial: 8250: Add support for console flow control
  serial: 8250: Check LSR timeout on console flow control
  serial: 8250: Set cons_flow on port registration
  tty: serial: 8250: protect against NULL uart-&gt;port.dev in register
  arm64: dts: add support for A9 based Amlogic BY401
  dt-bindings: arm: amlogic: add A311Y3 support
  serial: max310x: fix compile errors if CONFIG_SPI_MASTER is disabled
  serial: qcom-geni: Avoid probing debug console UART without console support
  serial: max310x: add comments for PLL limits
  ...
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<title>vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write</title>
<updated>2026-06-12T09:55:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yi Yang</name>
<email>yiyang13@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-04T06:07:34+00:00</published>
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A KASAN null-ptr-deref was observed in vcs_notifier():

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier+0x98/0x130
Read of size 2 at addr qmp_cmd_name: qmp_capabilities, arguments: {}

The issue is a race condition in vcs_write(). When the console_lock is
temporarily dropped (to copy data from userspace), the vc_data pointer
obtained from vcs_vc() may become stale. After re-acquiring the lock,
vcs_vc() is called again to re-validate the pointer. If the vc has been
deallocated in the meantime, vcs_vc() returns NULL, and the while loop
breaks (with written &gt; 0). However, after the loop, vcs_scr_updated(vc)
is still called with the now-NULL vc pointer, leading to a null pointer
dereference in the notifier chain (vcs_notifier dereferences param-&gt;vc).

Fix this by adding a NULL check for vc before calling vcs_scr_updated().

Fixes: 8fb9ea65c9d1 ("vc_screen: reload load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_write() to avoid UAF")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang &lt;yiyang13@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604060734.2914976-1-yiyang13@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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A KASAN null-ptr-deref was observed in vcs_notifier():

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier+0x98/0x130
Read of size 2 at addr qmp_cmd_name: qmp_capabilities, arguments: {}

The issue is a race condition in vcs_write(). When the console_lock is
temporarily dropped (to copy data from userspace), the vc_data pointer
obtained from vcs_vc() may become stale. After re-acquiring the lock,
vcs_vc() is called again to re-validate the pointer. If the vc has been
deallocated in the meantime, vcs_vc() returns NULL, and the while loop
breaks (with written &gt; 0). However, after the loop, vcs_scr_updated(vc)
is still called with the now-NULL vc pointer, leading to a null pointer
dereference in the notifier chain (vcs_notifier dereferences param-&gt;vc).

Fix this by adding a NULL check for vc before calling vcs_scr_updated().

Fixes: 8fb9ea65c9d1 ("vc_screen: reload load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_write() to avoid UAF")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang &lt;yiyang13@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604060734.2914976-1-yiyang13@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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