[PATCH 6.18 050/227] serial: Fix not set tty->port race condition

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T15:52:58Z

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>

commit 32f37e57583f869140cff445feedeea8a5fea986 upstream.

Revert commit bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant
tty_port_link_device()") because the tty_port_link_device() is not
redundant: the tty->port has to be confured before we call
uart_configure_port(), otherwise user-space can open console without TTY
linked to the driver.

This tty_port_link_device() was added explicitly to avoid this exact
issue in commit fb2b90014d78 ("tty: link tty and port before configuring
it as console"), so offending commit basically reverted the fix saying
it is redundant without addressing the actual race condition presented
there.

Reproducible always as tty->port warning on Qualcomm SoC with most of
devices disabled, so with very fast boot, and one serial device being
the console:

printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
------------[ cut here ]------------
tty_init_dev: ttyMSM driver does not set tty->port. This would crash the kernel. Fix the driver!
WARNING: drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 at tty_init_dev.part.0+0x228/0x25c, CPU#2: systemd/1
Modules linked in: socinfo tcsrcc_eliza gcc_eliza sm3_ce fuse ipv6
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G S 6.19.0-rc4-next-20260108-00024-g2202f4d30aa8 #73 PREEMPT
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Eliza (DT)
...
tty_init_dev.part.0 (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 (discriminator 11)) (P)
tty_open (arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h:95 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120 (discriminator 3))
chrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:411)
do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:962)
vfs_open (fs/open.c:1094)
do_open (fs/namei.c:4634)
path_openat (fs/namei.c:4793)
do_filp_open (fs/namei.c:4820)
do_sys_openat2 (fs/open.c:1391 (discriminator 3))
...
Starting Network Name Resolution...

Apparently the flow with this small Yocto-based ramdisk user-space is:

driver (qcom_geni_serial.c): user-space:
============================ ===========
qcom_geni_serial_probe()
uart_add_one_port()
serial_core_register_port()
serial_core_add_one_port()
uart_configure_port()
register_console()
|
| open console
| ...
| tty_init_dev()
| driver->ports[idx] is NULL
|
tty_port_register_device_attr_serdev()
tty_port_link_device() <- set driver->ports[idx]

Fixes: bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant tty_port_link_device()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123072139.53293-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -3102,6 +3102,12 @@ static int serial_core_add_one_port(stru
if (uport->cons && uport->dev)
of_console_check(uport->dev->of_node, uport->cons->name, uport->line);

+ /*
+ * TTY port has to be linked with the driver before register_console()
+ * in uart_configure_port(), because user-space could open the console
+ * immediately after.
+ */
+ tty_port_link_device(port, drv->tty_driver, uport->line);
uart_configure_port(drv, state, uport);

port->console = uart_console(uport);