Re: [PATCH v2] TTY: serial_core: Fix crash if DCD drop during suspend

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:25:44PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> This crash was showing up 100% of the time on Tegra CPUs when an
> agetty was running on the serial port and the console was not running
> on the serial port.  The reason the Tegra saw it so reliably is that
> the Tegra CPU internally ties DTR to DCD/DSR.  That means when we
> dropped DTR during suspend we would get always get an immediate DCD
> drop.
> 
> The specific order of operations that were running:
> * uart_suspend_port() would be called to put the uart in suspend mode
> * we'd drop DTR (ops->set_mctrl(uport, 0)).
> * the DTR drop would be looped back in the CPU to be a DCD drop.
> * the DCD drop would look to the serial driver as a hangup
> * the hangup would call uart_shutdown()
> * ... suspend / resume happens ...
> * uart_resume_port() would be called and run the code in the
>   (port->flags & ASYNC_SUSPENDED) block, which would startup the port
>   (and enable tx again).
> * Since the UART would be available for tx, we'd immediately get
>   an interrupt, eventually calling transmit_chars()
> * The transmit_chars() function would crash.  The first crash would
>   be a dereference of a NULL tty member, but since the port has been
>   shutdown that was just a symptom.
> 
> I have proposed a patch that would fix the Tegra CPUs here (see
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/11/444 - tty/serial: Prevent drop of DCD
> on suspend for Tegra UARTs).  However, even with that fix it is still
> possible for systems that have an externally visible DCD line to see a
> crash if the DCD drops at just the right time during suspend: thus
> this patch is still useful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> v2: Updated change description and comments based on deeper digging.

This patch doesn't apply at all to the linux-next tree, can you redo it
so that I know it is correct, and resend it?  (remember to keep Alan's
Ack on it.)

thanks,

greg k-h