patch "Clearing FIFOs in RS485 emulation mode causes subsequent transmits to" added to tty-linus

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Clearing FIFOs in RS485 emulation mode causes subsequent transmits to

to my tty git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


>From 2bed8a8e70729f996af92042d3ad0f11870acc1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Jedrychowski <avistel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:18:28 +1100
Subject: Clearing FIFOs in RS485 emulation mode causes subsequent transmits to
 break

When in RS485 emulation mode, __do_stop_tx_rs485() calls
serial8250_clear_fifos().  This not only clears the FIFOs, but also sets
all bits in their control register (UART_FCR) to 0.

One of the effects of this is the disabling of the FIFOs, which turns
them into single-byte holding registers.  The rest of the driver doesn't
know this, which results in the lions share of characters passed into a
write call to be dropped.

(I can supply logic analyzer screenshots if necessary)

This fix replaces the serial8250_clear_fifos() call to
serial8250_clear_and_reinit_fifos() - this prevents the "dropped
characters" issue from manifesting again while retaining the requirement
of clearing the RX FIFO after transmission if the SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX
flag is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Jedrychowski <avistel@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index fe4399b41df6..c13fec451d03 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ static void __do_stop_tx_rs485(struct uart_8250_port *p)
 	 * Enable previously disabled RX interrupts.
 	 */
 	if (!(p->port.rs485.flags & SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX)) {
-		serial8250_clear_fifos(p);
+		serial8250_clear_and_reinit_fifos(p);
 
 		p->ier |= UART_IER_RLSI | UART_IER_RDI;
 		serial_port_out(&p->port, UART_IER, p->ier);
-- 
2.11.0