Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: Clear port->pm on port specific driver unbind

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Apr 13 2023 - 12:06:44 EST


On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:03:41AM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> When we unbind a serial port hardware specific 8250 driver, the generic
> serial8250 driver takes over the port. After that we see an oops about 10
> seconds later. This can produce the following at least on some TI SoCs:
>
> Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406)
> Internal error: : 1406 [#1] SMP ARM
>
> Turns out that we may still have the serial port hardware specific driver
> port->pm in use, and serial8250_pm() tries to call it after the port
> specific driver is gone:
>
> serial8250_pm [8250_base] from uart_change_pm+0x54/0x8c [serial_base]
> uart_change_pm [serial_base] from uart_hangup+0x154/0x198 [serial_base]
> uart_hangup [serial_base] from __tty_hangup.part.0+0x328/0x37c
> __tty_hangup.part.0 from disassociate_ctty+0x154/0x20c
> disassociate_ctty from do_exit+0x744/0xaac
> do_exit from do_group_exit+0x40/0x8c
> do_group_exit from __wake_up_parent+0x0/0x1c
>
> Let's fix the issue by clearing port->pm in serial8250_unregister_port().

Sounds to me like a fix that needs a Fixes tag.
Code wise LGTM,
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> @@ -1157,6 +1157,7 @@ void serial8250_unregister_port(int line)
> uart->port.flags &= ~UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF;
> uart->port.type = PORT_UNKNOWN;
> uart->port.dev = &serial8250_isa_devs->dev;
> + uart->port.pm = NULL;
> uart->capabilities = 0;
> serial8250_apply_quirks(uart);
> uart_add_one_port(&serial8250_reg, &uart->port);
> --
> 2.40.0

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko