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

Jiri Olsa
2011-05-19T11:19:20Z

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:42:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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

I tried linux-next and cannot hit the issue anymore

thanks,
jirka