linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: core: fix broken console after suspend

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Message-ID: <Y/9Ddl7c2PKSEpsR@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 13:22:14 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Lukasz Majczak <lma@...ihalf.com>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        upstream@...ihalf.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: core: fix broken console after suspend

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 10:51:31AM +0100, Lukasz Majczak wrote:
> śr., 1 mar 2023 o 09:39 Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> napisał(a):
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 08:57:51AM +0100, Lukasz Majczak wrote:
> > > Re-enable the console device after suspending, causes its cflags,
> > > ispeed and ospeed to be set anew, basing on the values stored in
> > > uport->cons. The issue is that these values are set only once,
> > > when parsing console parameters after boot (see uart_set_options()),
> > > next after configuring a port in uart_port_startup() these parameteres
> > > (cflags, ispeed and ospeed) are copied to termios structure and
> > > the orginal one (stored in uport->cons) are cleared, but there is no place
> > > in code where those fields are checked against 0.
> > > When kernel calls uart_resume_port() and setups console, it copies cflags,
> > > ispeed and ospeed values from uart->cons,but those are alread cleared.
> > > The efect is that console is broken.
> > > This patch address this by preserving the cflags, ispeed and
> > > ospeed fields in uart->cons during uart_port_startup().
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majczak <lma@...ihalf.com>
> > > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 3 ---
> > >  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> > > index 2bd32c8ece39..394a05c09d87 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> > > @@ -225,9 +225,6 @@ static int uart_port_startup(struct tty_struct *tty, struct uart_state *state,
> > >                       tty->termios.c_cflag = uport->cons->cflag;
> > >                       tty->termios.c_ispeed = uport->cons->ispeed;
> > >                       tty->termios.c_ospeed = uport->cons->ospeed;
> > > -                     uport->cons->cflag = 0;
> > > -                     uport->cons->ispeed = 0;
> > > -                     uport->cons->ospeed = 0;
> > >               }
> > >               /*
> > >                * Initialise the hardware port settings.
> > > --
> > > 2.39.2.722.g9855ee24e9-goog
> > >
> >
> > What commit id does this fix?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> Hi Greg,
> 
> There are actually two commits that introduce problematic uport flags
> clearing in uart_startup (for the sake of simplicity I'd ignore the
> older history):
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v6.2&id=c7d7abff40c27f82fe78b1091ab3fad69b2546f9
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v6.2&id=027b57170bf8bb6999a28e4a5f3d78bf1db0f90c
> It's 10 years between those 2 and to me it was hard to decide about
> picking a proper one for the `Fixes:` tag.
> How would you recommend to proceed wrt applying this patch on the
> stable releases?

Where do you think this needs to go to?  Pick something?

And as you have obviously found this on a device running an older kernel
version, what kernel tree(s) did you test it on?

thanks,

greg k-h