Quoting satya priya (2020-02-25 05:54:21) > To fix the RX cancel command failure, rx_fifo buffer needs to be > flushed in stop_rx() by calling handle_rx(). > > If set_termios is called before startup, by this time memory is not > allocated to port->rx_fifo buffer, which leads to a NULL pointer > dereference. Also, clearly set_termios() isn't being called in the warning stack that I sent last round: pc : handle_rx_uart+0x64/0x278 lr : qcom_geni_serial_handle_rx+0x84/0x90 sp : ffffff814348f960 x29: ffffff814348f960 x28: ffffffd01ac24288 x27: 0000000000000018 x26: 0000000000000002 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffff8146341348 x23: ffffff8146341000 x22: ffffffd01accc978 x21: ffffff8146341000 x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: ffffffd01b22d000 x17: 0000000000008000 x16: 00000000000000b0 x15: ffffffd01afdbdd0 x14: ffffffd01b3edde0 x13: ffffffd01b7fb000 x12: 0000000000000001 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffffd010344780 x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : ffffffd019d8e768 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : ffffffd01adbb000 x4 : 0000000000008004 x3 : 0000000000000001 x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffffffd01accc978 Call trace: handle_rx_uart+0x64/0x278 qcom_geni_serial_handle_rx+0x84/0x90 qcom_geni_serial_stop_rx+0x110/0x180 qcom_geni_serial_port_setup+0x68/0x1b0 qcom_geni_serial_startup+0x24/0x70 uart_startup+0x164/0x28c uart_port_activate+0x6c/0xbc tty_port_open+0xa8/0x114 uart_open+0x28/0x38 ttyport_open+0x7c/0x164 serdev_device_open+0x38/0xe4 hci_uart_register_device+0x54/0x2e8 [hci_uart] qca_serdev_probe+0x1c4/0x374 [hci_uart] serdev_drv_probe+0x3c/0x64 really_probe+0x144/0x3f8 driver_probe_device+0x70/0x140 __driver_attach_async_helper+0x7c/0xa8 async_run_entry_fn+0x60/0x178 process_one_work+0x33c/0x640 worker_thread+0x2a0/0x470 kthread+0x128/0x138 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 Code: 1aca096a 911e0129 b940012b 7100054a (b800450b) This shows that uart_startup() is the one that is calling qcom_geni_serial_startup() and that's running the newly added cancel path. So even if we allocate the buffer in probe vs. in startup we're going to flip a buffer full of junk that we're trying to cancel out of the fifo into the tty layer. That seems wrong. We should have a different qcom_geni_serial_stop_rx() function that knows we're starting up vs. handling a normal rx event and call something besides handle_rx() because that pushes bytes up into the tty layer. > > To avoid this NULL pointer dereference allocate memory to port->rx_fifo > in probe itself. >