serial: 8250: force synchronous probe for the ISA and PNP drivers

On x86_64 defconfig, booting with driver_async_probe=serial hangs in early
init. The 8250 PNP driver is put onto the async probe pool.
serial8250_register_8250_port() runs in a kworker concurrently with the
ISA registration done from the serial8250_init() initcall resulting in a
deadlock or NULL dereference.

  - Deadlock: serial_core_register_port() holds port_mutex across
    serial_core_add_one_port()
        uart_configure_port()
            autoconfig_irq()
                probe_irq_on()
                    async_synchronize_full(),
    which waits for the async probe pool to drain.

    The async PNP worker reaches the "port already in use" check and
    tries to unregister it.
    serial8250_register_8250_port()
        uart_remove_one_port()
            serial_core_unregister_port()
    This blocks on port_mutex.
    The init thread waits for the worker and the worker waits for the
    init thread.

  - NULL deref: when the worker instead observes a slot whose port.dev
    is set but whose port_dev has not yet been populated, it hits the
    null pointer on the call to serial_core_get_ctrl_dev() in
    serial_core_unregister_port().

Signed-off-by: Rahul Bukte <rahul.bukte@sony.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610054130.2825182-1-rahul.bukte@sony.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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