Patch "Clearing FIFOs in RS485 emulation mode causes subsequent transmits to break" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<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 break

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     clearing-fifos-in-rs485-emulation-mode-causes-subsequent-transmits-to-break.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>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

From: Daniel Jedrychowski <avistel@gmail.com>

commit 2bed8a8e70729f996af92042d3ad0f11870acc1f upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ static void __do_stop_tx_rs485(struct ua
 	 * 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);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from avistel@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/clearing-fifos-in-rs485-emulation-mode-causes-subsequent-transmits-to-break.patch