While rebinding a uart device in a loop I noticed we may see a tx related race on uart_remove_one_port(): uart_write from n_tty_write n_tty_write from file_tty_write.constprop.0 file_tty_write.constprop.0 from vfs_write vfs_write from ksys_write ksys_write from ret_fast_syscall Let's disallow tx on port->UPF_DEAD. This flag gets set before we start tearing down the port in uart_remove_one_port(). Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static void __uart_start(struct tty_struct *tty) struct uart_state *state = tty->driver_data; struct uart_port *port = state->uart_port; - if (port && !uart_tx_stopped(port)) + if (port && !(port->flags & UPF_DEAD) && !uart_tx_stopped(port)) port->ops->start_tx(port); } -- 2.40.0