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From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
To: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	"John Ogness" <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 1/2] serial: core: fix baud rate fallback in uart_get_baud_rate()
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:59:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260930125901.778868-2-benquike@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930125901.778868-1-benquike@gmail.com>

When uart_get_baud_rate() is called with a baud rate exceeding the port's
maximum supported speed (port->uartclk / 16), it clips baud to [min,
max - 1] and encodes it into termios via tty_termios_encode_baud_rate().

However, because the loop bound is for (try = 0; try < 2; try++), the
loop terminates immediately after try == 1 without re-evaluating
baud = tty_termios_baud_rate(termios) for the clipped rate, hitting
WARN_ON(1) and returning 0, which then triggers a fatal divide-by-zero
(Oops: divide error) in uart_get_divisor():

  WARNING: drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:548 at uart_get_baud_rate+0x136/0x260
  [ ... ]
  divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN

Increase the retry count in uart_get_baud_rate() from 2 to 3 iterations so
that clipped baud rates are re-evaluated in the third iteration.

Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by setting B4000000 on /dev/ttyS0 via
tcsetattr(): on the unfixed kernel it triggers WARN_ON(1) and divide-by-zero
Oops, whereas with this fix applied uart_get_baud_rate() smoothly falls back
to 115200 without error.

Fixes: 091ea8e5d34e ("serial: core: prevent division by zero by always returning non-zero baud rate")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index f91bcfa30113..6ed0195e6912 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ unsigned int uart_get_baud_rate(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termi
 	 * Ask the low level driver to verify the baud rate if it can't
 	 * then it will have encode_baud_rate set the Closet else .
 	 */
-	for (try = 0; try < 2; try++) {
+	for (try = 0; try < 3; try++) {
 		baud = tty_termios_baud_rate(termios);

 		/*
-- 
2.47.3

  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-30 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-30 12:58 [PATCH v7 0/2] serial: core: fix baud rate fallback loop and baud_base overflow Hui Peng
2026-09-30 12:59 ` Hui Peng [this message]
2026-10-01  8:54   ` [PATCH v7 1/2] serial: core: fix baud rate fallback in uart_get_baud_rate() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-01  9:46     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-10-06 15:29       ` Hugo Villeneuve
2026-10-07 10:38         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-10-07 17:06           ` Hugo Villeneuve
2026-10-07 20:09             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-10-07 20:27               ` Hugo Villeneuve
2026-09-30 12:59 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] serial: core: reject baud_base values that overflow port->uartclk in uart_set_info() Hui Peng
2026-09-30 14:09   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-10-01  8:55   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-06 15:36   ` Hugo Villeneuve
2026-10-01  8:50 ` [PATCH v7 0/2] serial: core: fix baud rate fallback loop and baud_base overflow Greg Kroah-Hartman

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