The Qualcomm GENI serial driver did not handle buffer flushing and used
to print discarded characters when the circular buffer was cleared.
Since commit 1788cf6a91d9 ("tty: serial: switch from circ_buf to kfifo")
this instead resulted in a hard lockup due to
qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo() spinning indefinitely in the
interrupt handler.
The underlying bugs have now been fixed, but make sure to output NUL
characters instead of killing the machine if a similar driver bug is
ever reintroduced.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
index b2bbd2d79dbb..69a632fefc41 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ static void qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo(struct uart_port *uport,
memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
tx_bytes = min(remaining, BYTES_PER_FIFO_WORD);
- tx_bytes = uart_fifo_out(uport, buf, tx_bytes);
+ uart_fifo_out(uport, buf, tx_bytes);
iowrite32_rep(uport->membase + SE_GENI_TX_FIFOn, buf, 1);
--
2.44.1
