* [PATCH] x86/boot: validate console=uart8250 baud rate to avoid early boot hang
@ 2026-05-14 14:30 Thorsten Blum
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From: Thorsten Blum @ 2026-05-14 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86,
H. Peter Anvin, Pekka Enberg, Yinghai Lu
Cc: Thorsten Blum, stable, H. Peter Anvin, linux-kernel
When the baud rate is empty, 0, invalid, or overflows to 0 when stored
as an int, the system will hang during early boot because of a division
by zero in early_serial_init().
Fall back to DEFAULT_BAUD when the resulting baud rate is 0 to prevent
an early system hang.
Fixes: ce0aa5dd20e4 ("x86, setup: Make the setup code also accept console=uart8250")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c b/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
index 023bf1c3de8b..28a887af430d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static unsigned int probe_baud(int port)
static void parse_console_uart8250(void)
{
char optstr[64], *options;
- int baud = DEFAULT_BAUD;
+ int baud;
int port = 0;
/*
@@ -136,9 +136,11 @@ static void parse_console_uart8250(void)
else
return;
- if (options && (options[0] == ','))
- baud = simple_strtoull(options + 1, &options, 0);
- else
+ if (options && (options[0] == ',')) {
+ baud = simple_strtoull(options + 1, NULL, 0);
+ if (!baud)
+ baud = DEFAULT_BAUD;
+ } else
baud = probe_baud(port);
if (port)
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