Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: uartlite: ensure uart driver is registered

[Elodie Decerle <elodie.decerle@nokia.com>]

Hi,

On 18/03/2025 10:46, Maarten Brock wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
>>> When two instances of uart devices are probing, a concurrency race can
>>> occur.
>>>
>>> Adding a mutex lock around the uart_register_driver call in the probe
>>> function prevents this race condition and ensures that the uart driver
>>> structure is fully initialized and registered before it is used.
>>
>> So the problem that there is a single "state" for the driver as a whole.
>> That should be fixed up to be local to each individual device that is
>> added to the system.  Don't add a lock to paper over this as odds are
>> this is not the only place that will have problems.
>>
>> Are you just now having 2 of these devices in your system at the same
>> time?
> 
> In the past I have created a Zynq 7000 based system (dual core ARM) with
> 11 uartlites and I have not seen this problem. This was with a 5.10 kernel.
> 
> Maarten

Thanks for your fast reviewing and suggestion. In fact, we are using
multiple UART devices in our multi-cores system. The problem is
extremely rare and we could not even reproduce it so far. We'll provide
another version for this patch based on your comments, Greg.

Best regards,

Elodie