Patch "MIPS: AR7: ensure the port type's FCR value is used" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    MIPS: AR7: ensure the port type's FCR value is used

to the 3.18-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:
     mips-ar7-ensure-the-port-type-s-fcr-value-is-used.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 0a5191efe06b5103909206e4fbcff81d30283f8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 16:27:21 +0100
Subject: MIPS: AR7: ensure the port type's FCR value is used

From: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>

commit 0a5191efe06b5103909206e4fbcff81d30283f8e upstream.

Since commit aef9a7bd9b67 ("serial/uart/8250: Add tunable RX interrupt
trigger I/F of FIFO buffers"), the port's default FCR value isn't used
in serial8250_do_set_termios anymore, but copied over once in
serial8250_config_port and then modified as needed.

Unfortunately, serial8250_config_port will never be called if the port
is shared between kernel and userspace, and the port's flag doesn't have
UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF, which would trigger a serial8250_config_port as well.

This causes garbled output from userspace:

[    5.220000] random: procd urandom read with 49 bits of entropy available
ers
   [kee

Fix this by forcing it to be configured on boot, resulting in the
expected output:

[    5.250000] random: procd urandom read with 50 bits of entropy available
Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level

Fixes: aef9a7bd9b67 ("serial/uart/8250: Add tunable RX interrupt trigger I/F of FIFO buffers")
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox.fr>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17544/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/ar7/platform.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/mips/ar7/platform.c
+++ b/arch/mips/ar7/platform.c
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ static int __init ar7_register_uarts(voi
 	uart_port.type		= PORT_AR7;
 	uart_port.uartclk	= clk_get_rate(bus_clk) / 2;
 	uart_port.iotype	= UPIO_MEM32;
-	uart_port.flags		= UPF_FIXED_TYPE;
+	uart_port.flags		= UPF_FIXED_TYPE | UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF;
 	uart_port.regshift	= 2;
 
 	uart_port.line		= 0;


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

queue-3.18/mips-ar7-ensure-the-port-type-s-fcr-value-is-used.patch