linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: qcom_geni_serial: Don't try to manually disable the console

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:46:52 -0700
From:   Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     mka@...omium.org, swboyd@...omium.org, ryandcase@...omium.org,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, akashast@...eaurora.org,
        skakit@...eaurora.org, rojay@...eaurora.org,
        mgautam@...eaurora.org, Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Doug Anderson <dianders@...gle.com>,
        Girish Mahadevan <girishm@...eaurora.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian <kramasub@...eaurora.org>,
        Sagar Dharia <sdharia@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: qcom_geni_serial: Don't try to manually disable the console

The geni serial driver's shutdown code had a special case to call
console_stop().  Grepping through the code, it was the only serial
driver doing something like this (the only other caller of
console_stop() was in serial_core.c).

As far as I can tell there's no reason to call console_stop() in the
geni code.  ...and a good reason _not_ to call it.  Specifically if
you have an agetty running on the same serial port as the console then
killing the agetty kills your console and if you start the agetty
again the console doesn't come back.

Fixes: c4f528795d1a ("tty: serial: msm_geni_serial: Add serial driver support for GENI based QUP")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
---

 drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
index 09d8612517aa..69a0072e0c53 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
@@ -827,10 +827,6 @@ static void get_tx_fifo_size(struct qcom_geni_serial_port *port)
 
 static void qcom_geni_serial_shutdown(struct uart_port *uport)
 {
-	/* Stop the console before stopping the current tx */
-	if (uart_console(uport))
-		console_stop(uport->cons);
-
 	disable_irq(uport->irq);
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog