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From: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
	Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>,
	Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] serial: tegra: don't advance the TX kfifo for a flushed transfer
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:39:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261031123911.3784690-3-samarth.colleges@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261031123911.3784690-1-samarth.colleges@gmail.com>

tegra_uart_flush_buffer() terminates the TX DMA transfer after the
serial core has reset the transmit kfifo, but leaves tx_in_progress set.
A completion callback that was already running may have calculated its
byte count from tx_bytes_requested before acquiring the port lock,
allowing it to call uart_xmit_advance() on the reset kfifo after the
flush. This can advance the kfifo tail past its head, causing
kfifo_len() to wrap and the driver to transmit stale buffer contents.
The same race was fixed in qcom-geni by commit 452d6fa37ae9 ("serial:
qcom_geni: fix kfifo underflow when flush precedes DMA completion IRQ").

Clear tx_in_progress in the flush hook and have the completion callback
skip the kfifo update if the transfer has already been retired by either
the flush or tegra_uart_stop_tx(), which also advances the kfifo itself.

Fixes: e9ea096dd225 ("serial: tegra: add serial driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c
index b0fc4ae3686f..8b712a9bc293 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c
@@ -537,6 +537,11 @@ static void tegra_uart_tx_dma_complete(void *args)
 	count = tup->tx_bytes_requested - state.residue;
 	async_tx_ack(tup->tx_dma_desc);
 	uart_port_lock_irqsave(&tup->uport, &flags);
+	/* Already retired by stop_tx or flush_buffer */
+	if (tup->tx_in_progress != TEGRA_UART_TX_DMA) {
+		uart_port_unlock_irqrestore(&tup->uport, flags);
+		return;
+	}
 	uart_xmit_advance(&tup->uport, count);
 	tup->tx_in_progress = 0;
 	if (kfifo_len(&tport->xmit_fifo) < WAKEUP_CHARS)
@@ -1276,6 +1281,9 @@ static void tegra_uart_flush_buffer(struct uart_port *u)
 	tup->tx_bytes = 0;
 	if (tup->tx_dma_chan)
 		dmaengine_terminate_all(tup->tx_dma_chan);
+	/* The kfifo has been reset: the completion must not advance it */
+	if (tup->tx_in_progress == TEGRA_UART_TX_DMA)
+		tup->tx_in_progress = 0;
 }
 
 static void tegra_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *u)
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-31 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-31  0:47 [BUG] serial: TX kfifo underflow when TCOFLUSH races with TX DMA (samsung, sprd, msm, pch_uart, tegra) Samarth Narang
2026-10-31  8:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-31 12:39 ` [PATCH 0/5] serial: fix TX kfifo underflow on flush in five drivers Samarth Narang
2026-10-31 12:39   ` [PATCH 1/5] tty: serial: samsung: fix TX kfifo underflow on flush Samarth Narang
2026-10-31 12:39   ` Samarth Narang [this message]
2026-10-31 12:39   ` [PATCH 3/5] serial: sprd: " Samarth Narang
2026-10-31 12:39   ` [PATCH 4/5] tty: serial: msm: " Samarth Narang
2026-10-31 12:39   ` [PATCH 5/5] serial: pch_uart: " Samarth Narang
2026-10-31 12:59   ` [PATCH 0/5] serial: fix TX kfifo underflow on flush in five drivers Greg Kroah-Hartman

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