FAILED: patch "[PATCH] serial: sh-sci: Fix could not remove dev_attr_rx_fifo_timeout" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] serial: sh-sci: Fix could not remove dev_attr_rx_fifo_timeout" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 641a41dbba217ee5bd26abe6be77f8cead9cd00e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:13:35 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] serial: sh-sci: Fix could not remove dev_attr_rx_fifo_timeout

This patch fixes an issue that the sci_remove() could not remove
dev_attr_rx_fifo_timeout because uart_remove_one_port() set
the port->port.type to PORT_UNKNOWN.

Reported-by: Hiromitsu Yamasaki <hiromitsu.yamasaki.ym@renesas.com>
Fixes: 5d23188a473d ("serial: sh-sci: make RX FIFO parameters tunable via sysfs")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Reviewed-by: Ulrich Hecht <uli+renesas@fpond.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
index e19bfbba8a01..effba6ce0caa 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
@@ -3102,6 +3102,7 @@ static struct uart_driver sci_uart_driver = {
 static int sci_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
 	struct sci_port *port = platform_get_drvdata(dev);
+	unsigned int type = port->port.type;	/* uart_remove_... clears it */
 
 	sci_ports_in_use &= ~BIT(port->port.line);
 	uart_remove_one_port(&sci_uart_driver, &port->port);
@@ -3112,8 +3113,7 @@ static int sci_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
 		sysfs_remove_file(&dev->dev.kobj,
 				  &dev_attr_rx_fifo_trigger.attr);
 	}
-	if (port->port.type == PORT_SCIFA || port->port.type == PORT_SCIFB ||
-	    port->port.type == PORT_HSCIF) {
+	if (type == PORT_SCIFA || type == PORT_SCIFB || type == PORT_HSCIF) {
 		sysfs_remove_file(&dev->dev.kobj,
 				  &dev_attr_rx_fifo_timeout.attr);
 	}