kernel/linux.git/drivers/tty/serial/8250, branch v6.18.48

serial: 8250_of: clear stuck empty-FIFO RX-timeout on LPC32xx

2026-08-19T16:18:15+00:00

commit 1423415471274abda87024967d7fe2206ceee0ea upstream. The NXP LPC32xx UART (PORT_LPC3220) can latch an RX character-timeout interrupt while the RX FIFO is empty: IIR reports UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT (0x0c) but LSR.DR is clear. A character timeout is only cleared by reading RHR, but serial8250_rx_chars() reads RHR only when LSR.DR is set, so nothing ever clears the condition. The interrupt is level-triggered and re-fires immediately, so on a single-core ARM926 the resulting interrupt storm livelocks the CPU. It is reproducible when userspace repeatedly opens the front-panel port (ttyS1): serial8250_do_set_termios() re-enables interrupts on unlock and the handler then spins forever with iir=0xcc lsr=0x60 ier=0x05, tripping the soft-lockup detector in serial8250_handle_irq_locked(). LPC32xx has no dedicated 8250 glue driver, it's driven by the generic 8250_of. Add a hardware specific handle_irq for PORT_LPC3220, wired up in of_platform_serial_setup() the same way fsl8250_handle_irq is installed. The handler follows dw8250_handle_irq(): on an RX timeout with an empty FIFO (LSR.DR and LSR.BI clear) it does one throwaway RHR read to clear the condition, then calls serial8250_handle_irq_locked(). No real received data is ever discarded, and it is a no-op on healthy UARTs which never report a timeout with DR clear. This is the same class of bug already worked around in other 8250 drivers; see commit 424d79183af0 ("serial: 8250_dw: Avoid "too much work" from bogus rx timeout interrupt") which reports the identical iir=0xcc/lsr=0x60. See also UART_RX_TIMEOUT_QUIRK in 8250_omap, and the note in 8250_bcm7271. Cc: stable Assisted-by: Claude:Opus4.8 Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilbur Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730193920.28954-1-rwilbur633@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250_dma: Clear stale RX state on shutdown

2026-08-19T16:18:15+00:00

commit e2fe6a0efecbef00e3ecc2db64dd5afa8c212b41 upstream. serial8250_release_dma() terminates RX DMA and releases the channel, but leaves rx_running set. If the port is closed while an RX transfer is active, the stale state remains while rxchan is NULL until the channel is requested again on the next open. The DesignWare BUSY workaround added by commit a7b9ce39fbe4 ("serial: 8250_dw: Ensure BUSY is deasserted") calls serial8250_rx_dma_flush() from the LCR write path during startup. This happens before serial8250_request_dma() obtains a new RX channel. On reopen, the stale rx_running state therefore makes the flush path pass a NULL channel to dmaengine_pause(), causing a kernel Oops. Clear rx_running after terminating RX DMA, matching the TX cleanup. Also make the flush helper return if the DMA object or RX channel is not available so startup and teardown paths cannot pass a NULL channel to the DMAengine API. Fixes: 0fcb7901f9d6 ("tty: serial: 8250_dma: keep own book keeping about RX transfers") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Cunhao Lu <1579567540@qq.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_9EE2945F4C933B4D810C73C2D7485E000F06@qq.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250_mid: Fix NULL function pointer dereference on DNV/ICX-D/SNR platforms

2026-08-03T09:21:59+00:00

commit 7fb13fd7e9a59a37cd911efff83abe19e3ee029d upstream. Commit b1b4efea05a5 ("serial: 8250_mid: Disable DMA for selected platforms") replaced the dnv_board setup and exit callbacks with PTR_IF(false, ...), which evaluates to NULL. However, the three call sites in mid8250_probe() and mid8250_remove() unconditionally dereference these function pointers without NULL checks, causing a NULL pointer dereference (kernel oops) on any Denverton (DNV), Ice Lake Xeon D (ICX-D/CDF), or Snowridge (SNR) platform. Fix this by adding the missing NULL checks before calling the setup and exit callbacks. Fixes: b1b4efea05a5 ("serial: 8250_mid: Disable DMA for selected platforms") Cc: stable Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Jiangshan Yi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260715073546.1875083-1-yijiangshan@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250_omap: clear rx_running on zero-length DMA completes

2026-07-24T14:15:41+00:00

commit 061b627ba534230a18ec4d7251562af12325d06a upstream. On AM33xx RX DMA only triggers when the FIFO reaches the configured threshold (typically 48 bytes). For smaller bursts no DMA request is issued and the FIFO is drained by RX timeout. In this case __dma_rx_do_complete() can legitimately see count == 0. The current code exits early in this case and does not clear dma->rx_running, leaving the DMA state inconsistent. This can prevent RX DMA from restarting and may cause omap_8250_rx_dma_flush() to fail, marking DMA as broken. Fix this by clearing dma->rx_running once the DMA transfer has completed or been terminated, even if no data was transferred. Fixes: a5fd8945a478 ("serial: 8250: 8250_omap.c: Clear DMA RX running status only after DMA termination is done") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Matthias Feser Reviewed-by: Moteen Shah Link: https://patch.msgid.link/BE3P281MB55155F2F5795E411F5A65282EE0B2@BE3P281MB5515.DEUP281.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250_mid: Disable DMA for selected platforms

2026-07-18T14:53:22+00:00

commit b1b4efea05a56c0995e4702a86d6624b4fdff32f upstream. In accordance with Errata (specification updates) HSUART May Stop Functioning when DMA is Active. - Denverton document #572409, rev 3.4, DNV60 - Ice Lake Xeon D document #714070, ICXD65 - Snowridge document #731931, SNR44 For a quick fix just disable the respective callbacks during the device probe. Depending on the future development we might remove them completely. Reported-by: micas-opensource Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20250625031409.2404219-1-opensource@ruijie.com.cn/ Fixes: 6ede6dcd87aa ("serial: 8250_mid: add support for DMA engine handling from UART MMIO") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260626094937.561776-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails

2026-07-04T11:44:21+00:00

commit 10fc708b4de7f86002d2d735a2dbf3b5b7f65692 upstream. dw8250_probe() registers the 8250 port via serial8250_register_8250_port() and then, if the device has a clock, registers a clock notifier. If clk_notifier_register() fails, probe returns the error but leaves the 8250 port registered. The matching serial8250_unregister_port() lives in dw8250_remove(), which is not called when probe fails, so the port slot stays occupied until the device is rebound or the system is rebooted. The devm-allocated driver data is freed while the port still references it (via the saved private_data and serial_in/serial_out callbacks), so any access to that port slot before a rebind is a use-after-free hazard. Unregister the port on the clk_notifier_register() error path. Fixes: cc816969d7b5 ("serial: 8250_dw: Fix common clocks usage race condition") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stepan Ionichev Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260514143746.23671-2-sozdayvek@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250_dw: dispatch SysRq character in dw8250_handle_irq()

2026-06-09T10:28:49+00:00

commit 2e211723953f7740e54b53f3d3a0d5e351a5e223 upstream. dw8250_handle_irq() calls serial8250_handle_irq_locked() with the port lock held via guard(uart_port_lock_irqsave). The guard destructor is plain uart_port_unlock_irqrestore(), so a SysRq character captured into port->sysrq_ch by uart_prepare_sysrq_char() is dropped without ever being dispatched to handle_sysrq(). This is the same regression pattern as in serial8250_handle_irq(), introduced when 883c5a2bc934 ("serial: 8250_dw: Rework dw8250_handle_irq() locking and IIR handling") moved the function to the guard()-based locking scheme without using the sysrq-aware unlock helper. Switch to guard(uart_port_lock_check_sysrq_irqsave) so that captured sysrq_ch is dispatched on scope exit, matching the fix in serial8250_handle_irq(). Fixes: 883c5a2bc934 ("serial: 8250_dw: Rework dw8250_handle_irq() locking and IIR handling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Jacques Nilo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ed56fcaf4af24e4ed011a7bce206e0182acb761c.1778675349.git.jnilo@free.fr Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: dispatch SysRq character in serial8250_handle_irq()

2026-06-09T10:28:49+00:00

commit 71f42b2149a1307a97165b409493665579462ea0 upstream. serial8250_handle_irq() captures a SysRq character into port->sysrq_ch inside serial8250_handle_irq_locked() via uart_prepare_sysrq_char() (reached from serial8250_read_char()). Dispatch of that captured character to handle_sysrq() is expected to happen at port-unlock time, through uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq[_irqrestore](). After commit 8324a54f604d ("serial: 8250: Add serial8250_handle_irq_locked()") the function was reduced to a wrapper that takes the port lock via guard(uart_port_lock_irqsave) whose destructor is plain uart_port_unlock_irqrestore(). The sysrq-aware unlock helper is no longer called, so port->sysrq_ch is captured but never dispatched: BREAK + SysRq key is consumed silently. This was the very condition Johan Hovold's 853a9ae29e978 ("serial: 8250: fix handle_irq locking", 2021) introduced uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq_irqrestore() to address. Switch to the new guard(uart_port_lock_check_sysrq_irqsave), whose destructor is the sysrq-aware unlock helper, restoring the pre-split behaviour. Update the Context: comment on serial8250_handle_irq_locked() so future HW-specific 8250 wrappers know to use the same guard or the explicit sysrq-aware unlock. Verified on RTL8196E with CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL=y: BREAK + 'h' on the console UART produces the SysRq help dump in dmesg and the brk counter in /proc/tty/driver/serial increments correctly. Fixes: 8324a54f604d ("serial: 8250: Add serial8250_handle_irq_locked()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Jacques Nilo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/52692ae6c3501f7940347cef364ad7fcacaab7e5.1778675349.git.jnilo@free.fr Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250_dw: Ensure BUSY is deasserted

2026-03-25T10:10:35+00:00

commit a7b9ce39fbe4ae2919fe4f7ac16c293cb6632d30 upstream. DW UART cannot write to LCR, DLL, and DLH while BUSY is asserted. Existance of BUSY depends on uart_16550_compatible, if UART HW is configured with it those registers can always be written. There currently is dw8250_force_idle() which attempts to achieve non-BUSY state by disabling FIFO, however, the solution is unreliable when Rx keeps getting more and more characters. Create a sequence of operations that ensures UART cannot keep BUSY asserted indefinitely. The new sequence relies on enabling loopback mode temporarily to prevent incoming Rx characters keeping UART BUSY. Ensure no Tx in ongoing while the UART is switches into the loopback mode (requires exporting serial8250_fifo_wait_for_lsr_thre() and adding DMA Tx pause/resume functions). According to tests performed by Adriana Nicolae , simply disabling FIFO or clearing FIFOs only once does not always ensure BUSY is deasserted but up to two tries may be needed. This could be related to ongoing Rx of a character (a guess, not known for sure). Therefore, retry FIFO clearing a few times (retry limit 4 is arbitrary number but using, e.g., p->fifosize seems overly large). Tests performed by others did not exhibit similar challenge but it does not seem harmful to leave the FIFO clearing loop in place for all DW UARTs with BUSY functionality. Use the new dw8250_idle_enter/exit() to do divisor writes and LCR writes. In case of plain LCR writes, opportunistically try to update LCR first and only invoke dw8250_idle_enter() if the write did not succeed (it has been observed that in practice most LCR writes do succeed without complications). This issue was first reported by qianfan Zhao who put lots of debugging effort into understanding the solution space. Fixes: c49436b657d0 ("serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround") Fixes: 7d4008ebb1c9 ("tty: add a DesignWare 8250 driver") Cc: stable Reported-by: qianfan Zhao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/289bb78a-7509-1c5c-2923-a04ed3b6487d@163.com/ Reported-by: Adriana Nicolae Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20250819182322.3451959-1-adriana@arista.com/ Reported-by: Bandal, Shankar Tested-by: Bandal, Shankar Tested-by: Murthy, Shanth Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203171049.4353-8-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: Add late synchronize_irq() to shutdown to handle DW UART BUSY

2026-03-25T10:10:35+00:00

commit e0a368ae79531ff92105a2692f10d83052055856 upstream. When DW UART is !uart_16550_compatible, it can indicate BUSY at any point (when under constant Rx pressure) unless a complex sequence of steps is performed. Any LCR write can run a foul with the condition that prevents writing LCR while the UART is BUSY, which triggers BUSY_DETECT interrupt that seems unmaskable using IER bits. Normal flow is that dw8250_handle_irq() handles BUSY_DETECT condition by reading USR register. This BUSY feature, however, breaks the assumptions made in serial8250_do_shutdown(), which runs synchronize_irq() after clearing IER and assumes no interrupts can occur after that point but then proceeds to update LCR, which on DW UART can trigger an interrupt. If serial8250_do_shutdown() releases the interrupt handler before the handler has run and processed the BUSY_DETECT condition by read the USR register, the IRQ is not deasserted resulting in interrupt storm that triggers "irq x: nobody cared" warning leading to disabling the IRQ. Add late synchronize_irq() into serial8250_do_shutdown() to ensure BUSY_DETECT from DW UART is handled before port's interrupt handler is released. Alternative would be to add DW UART specific shutdown function but it would mostly duplicate the generic code and the extra synchronize_irq() seems pretty harmless in serial8250_do_shutdown(). Fixes: 7d4008ebb1c9 ("tty: add a DesignWare 8250 driver") Cc: stable Reported-by: Bandal, Shankar Tested-by: Bandal, Shankar Tested-by: Murthy, Shanth Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203171049.4353-7-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman