[PATCH 4.15 084/168] serdev: Fix serdev_uevent failure on ACPI enumerated serdev-controllers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 10 2018 - 18:29:44 EST


4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 7d09995dcb0577b4a56aad7f2bb56f28604e8f1a ]

ACPI enumerated serdev-controllers do not have an ACPI companion, the ACPI
companion belongs to the serdev-device child of the serdev-controller, not
to the controller itself. This was causing serdev_uevent to always return
-ENODEV when called on a serdev-controller leading to errors like these:

kernel: serial serial0: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent

being logged. This commit modifies serdev_uevent to directly return 0
when called on an ACPI enumerated serdev-controller fixing this.

Note: I do not think that setting a modalias on a devicetree enumerated
serdev-controller makes sense either. So perhaps the !dev->of_node part of
the check can be dropped too, but I'm not entirely sure that doing this
on devicetree too is correct.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serdev/core.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ static int serdev_uevent(struct device *
int rc;

/* TODO: platform modalias */
+
+ /* ACPI enumerated controllers do not have a modalias */
+ if (!dev->of_node && dev->type == &serdev_ctrl_type)
+ return 0;
+
rc = acpi_device_uevent_modalias(dev, env);
if (rc != -ENODEV)
return rc;