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From: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
	Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>
Cc: Ryan Chen <ryan_chen@aspeedtech.com>,
	Billy Tsai <billy_tsai@aspeedtech.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: shut down the unthrottle timer on removal
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:03:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261112070357.38870-1-mhun512@gmail.com> (raw)

aspeed_vuart_remove() deletes unthrottle_timer while the port IRQ is
still active. An interrupt can re-arm the timer before port shutdown,
allowing its callback to access freed driver data.

Use timer_shutdown_sync() to prevent rearming. Keep it before
serial8250_unregister_port(), which releases the register mapping
used by the callback.

Found by a static analysis tool under development.

Compile-tested with W=1 for arm64 and x86_64.
Not tested on hardware.

Fixes: 5909c0bf9c7a ("serial/aspeed-vuart: Implement quick throttle mechanism")
Co-developed-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>
---

 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
index 452bef82bec2..0776675b8382 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ static void aspeed_vuart_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct aspeed_vuart *vuart = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
-	timer_delete_sync(&vuart->unthrottle_timer);
+	timer_shutdown_sync(&vuart->unthrottle_timer);
 	aspeed_vuart_set_enabled(vuart, false);
 	serial8250_unregister_port(vuart->port);
 	sysfs_remove_group(&vuart->dev->kobj, &aspeed_vuart_attr_group);

base-commit: 630059a5a632377b9b7b487baccde92b7ae1dd47
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-11-12  7:04 UTC|newest]

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2026-11-12  7:15 ` [PATCH] serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: shut down the unthrottle timer on removal sashiko-bot

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