Re: [PATCH] tty: serdev: serdev-ttyport: add devt for ctrl->dev

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 06:54:00PM +0800, Sherry Sun wrote:
> For serdev framework, the serdev_controller device is the tty device,
> which is also the child device of the uart_port device. If we don't set
> devt property for ctrl->dev, device_find_child(uport->dev, ...) may
> always return NULL in uart_suspend_port() function, which prevents us
> from properly handling uart port suspend, so fix it here.
> 
> Fixes: bed35c6dfa6a ("serdev: add a tty port controller driver")
> Signed-off-by: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c b/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c
> index bba37ab90215..c58af8141380 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c
> @@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ struct device *serdev_tty_port_register(struct tty_port *port,
>  {
>  	struct serdev_controller *ctrl;
>  	struct serport *serport;
> +	dev_t devt = MKDEV(drv->major, drv->minor_start) + idx;
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	if (!port || !drv || !parent)
> @@ -282,6 +283,7 @@ struct device *serdev_tty_port_register(struct tty_port *port,
>  	serport->tty_idx = idx;
>  	serport->tty_drv = drv;
>  
> +	ctrl->dev.devt = devt;

This feels wrong as you can't just create a magic dev_t out of no where
and expect it to be handled properly.  Where now is this dev_t exposed?

Something else feels wrong here, sorry, I do not think this is correct.

thanks,

greg k-h