kernel/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c, branch master

serial: 8250_dw: Ensure BUSY is deasserted

2026-03-12T14:34:29Z

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

2026-03-12T14:34:25Z

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

serial: 8250: Add serial8250_handle_irq_locked()

2026-03-12T14:34:15Z

8250_port exports serial8250_handle_irq() to HW specific 8250 drivers. It takes port's lock within but a HW specific 8250 driver may want to take port's lock itself, do something, and then call the generic handler in 8250_port but to do that, the caller has to release port's lock for no good reason. Introduce serial8250_handle_irq_locked() which a HW specific driver can call while already holding port's lock. As this is new export, put it straight into a namespace (where all 8250 exports should eventually be moved). Tested-by: Bandal, Shankar Tested-by: Murthy, Shanth Cc: stable Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203171049.4353-4-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: Protect LCR write in shutdown

2026-03-12T14:34:07Z

The 8250_dw driver needs to potentially perform very complex operations during LCR writes because its BUSY handling prevents updates to LCR while UART is BUSY (which is not fully under our control without those complex operations). Thus, LCR writes should occur under port's lock. Move LCR write under port's lock in serial8250_do_shutdown(). Also split the LCR RMW so that the logic is on a separate line for clarity. Reported-by: Bandal, Shankar Tested-by: Bandal, Shankar Tested-by: Murthy, Shanth Cc: stable Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203171049.4353-2-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: always disable IRQ during THRE test

2026-03-12T14:30:30Z

commit 039d4926379b ("serial: 8250: Toggle IER bits on only after irq has been set up") moved IRQ setup before the THRE test, in combination with commit 205d300aea75 ("serial: 8250: change lock order in serial8250_do_startup()") the interrupt handler can run during the test and race with its IIR reads. This can produce wrong THRE test results and cause spurious registration of the serial8250_backup_timeout timer. Unconditionally disable the IRQ for the short duration of the test and re-enable it afterwards to avoid the race. Fixes: 039d4926379b ("serial: 8250: Toggle IER bits on only after irq has been set up") Depends-on: 205d300aea75 ("serial: 8250: change lock order in serial8250_do_startup()") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel Tested-by: Maximilian Lueer Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224121639.579404-1-alban.bedel@lht.dlh.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

serial: 8250: use guard()s

2025-08-17T10:46:26Z

Having all the new guards, use them in the 8250 code. This improves readability, makes error handling easier, and marks locked portions of code explicit. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814072456.182853-10-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: introduce RPM guard()s

2025-08-17T10:46:25Z

Having this, guards like these work: guard(serial8250_rpm)(up); or scoped_guard(serial8250_rpm, up) { ... } See e.g. "serial: 8250: use guard()s" later in this series. And make them available to anyone (EXPORT + put in 8250.h) as drivers open code this anyway. The _tx ones are not defined as they would have no user. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814072456.182853-5-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: fix panic due to PSLVERR

2025-07-24T09:40:41Z

When the PSLVERR_RESP_EN parameter is set to 1, the device generates an error response if an attempt is made to read an empty RBR (Receive Buffer Register) while the FIFO is enabled. In serial8250_do_startup(), calling serial_port_out(port, UART_LCR, UART_LCR_WLEN8) triggers dw8250_check_lcr(), which invokes dw8250_force_idle() and serial8250_clear_and_reinit_fifos(). The latter function enables the FIFO via serial_out(p, UART_FCR, p->fcr). Execution proceeds to the serial_port_in(port, UART_RX). This satisfies the PSLVERR trigger condition. When another CPU (e.g., using printk()) is accessing the UART (UART is busy), the current CPU fails the check (value & ~UART_LCR_SPAR) == (lcr & ~UART_LCR_SPAR) in dw8250_check_lcr(), causing it to enter dw8250_force_idle(). Put serial_port_out(port, UART_LCR, UART_LCR_WLEN8) under the port->lock to fix this issue. Panic backtrace: [ 0.442336] Oops - unknown exception [#1] [ 0.442343] epc : dw8250_serial_in32+0x1e/0x4a [ 0.442351] ra : serial8250_do_startup+0x2c8/0x88e ... [ 0.442416] console_on_rootfs+0x26/0x70 Fixes: c49436b657d0 ("serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/84cydt5peu.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de/T/ Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui Reviewed-by: John Ogness Cc: stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250723023322.464-2-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: rename lsr_TEMT, iir_NOINT to lowercase

2025-06-24T14:32:56Z

There are already variables like 'iir_noint1' and 'iir_noint2'. Follow the preexisting lowercase naming of variables. So s/lsr_TEMT/lsr_temt/ and 'iir_NOINT' likewise. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250624080641.509959-4-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman