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authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>2015-03-11 16:19:16 +0300
committerLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>2015-04-01 12:17:41 +0300
commit59f938497062e849e6ada99b6d9b1dc6c9d7d6b1 (patch)
treeebc1599b7606550a9f2c2da912f02c5d8d95d24f /drivers/tty/serial
parented2bc36dcbeeafb977e1fd71668723e30ed5def1 (diff)
downloadlinux-59f938497062e849e6ada99b6d9b1dc6c9d7d6b1.tar.xz
serial: 8250_dw: Fix deadlock in LCR workaround
commit 7fd6f640f2dd17dac6ddd6702c378cb0bb9cfa11 upstream. Trying to write console output from within the serial console driver while the port->lock is held causes recursive deadlock: CPU 0 spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock) printk() console_unlock() call_console_drivers() serial8250_console_write() spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock) ** DEADLOCK ** The 8250_dw i/o accessors try to write a console error message if the LCR workaround was unsuccessful. When the port->lock is already held (eg., when called from serial8250_set_termios()), this deadlocks. Make the error message a FIXME until a general solution is devised. Cc: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@gmail.com> Reported-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [ luis: backported to 3.16: - dropped changes to dw8250_serial_outq() ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
index 51b307aab75e..f4e14f9baae5 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -165,7 +165,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writeb(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
}
- dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ /*
+ * FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
+ * dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ */
}
}
@@ -202,7 +205,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out32(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writel(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
}
- dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ /*
+ * FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
+ * dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ */
}
}