linux-kernel - console=ttyS1 breaks ttyS1 termios and prevents me from logging in

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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2015 14:17:35 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: console=ttyS1 breaks ttyS1 termios and prevents me from logging in

Something strange seems to have happened to my serial console setup.
I boot with console=ttyS1,115200n8 and I have a getty running on
/dev/ttyS1.

On older kernels, or if I remove the console= boot parameter, then my
getty works fine.  On 3.19.3 with the console= parameter, something's
wrong with termios and I can't log in.  Running:

# stty icanon </dev/ttyS1

breaks line this (partial strace results included):

ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or
TCGETS, {B115200 opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or
TCGETS, {B115200 opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_GINFO or TCSETSW,
{B115200 opost -isig icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or
TCGETS, {B115200 opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or
TCGETS, {B115200 opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
write(2, "stty: ", 6stty: )                   = 6
write(2, "standard input: unable to perfor"..., 58standard input:
unable to perform all requested operations) = 58

IOW, the setting didn't stick.  On the bad kernel, stty works just
fine on ttyS0.  If I switch to using console=ttyS0,115200, then stty
works on ttyS1 and fails on ttyS0.

I have no idea what's going on here.  I have two apparently identical
boxes.  One of them has this problem and the other doesn't.

Thanks,
Andy
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