Re: BUG: NULL pointer deref in tty port / uart

Greg KH
2011-05-18T19:42:33Z

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I think it's the
> >
> > uart_update_termios in uart_dtr_rts (drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c)
> >
> > called path:
> >
> > tty_port_block_til_ready
> > tty_port_raise_dtr_rts
> > uart_dtr_rts
> > uart_update_termios
>
> Ah that would explain why I can't find and dup it - it isn't found in
> the current -next tree.
>
>
> c7d7abff40c27f82fe78b1091ab3fad69b2546f9 (and thereafter)
>
> Jiri Slaby fixed it in sorting out uart_startup
>
> I guess these should now get tagged for -stable.

So that would be the following patches in the linux-next tree:
c7d7abff40c27f82fe78b1091ab3fad69b2546f9 serial: core, move termios handling to uart_startup
303a7a1199c20f7c9452f024a6e17bf348b6b398 serial: core, do not set DTR/RTS twice on startup
6f5c24ad0f7619502199185a026a228174a27e68 serial: core, remove uart_update_termios

right?

Anything else need to be backported?

Frederic, can you test that these 3 patches solve the problem for you?
If you want, I can send them to you separately if you don't have a copy
of linux-next around anywhere.

thanks,

greg k-h