Re: kernel lockup due to bad baud rate data

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> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:21:30 -0700
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:09:12AM +0000, johnlinn@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I'm testing with 2.6.39 and our serial driver that's unique to our ARM
> > > platform.  I suspect we have a problem with our serial driver but
> > > wanted to see if anyone has seen any similar behavior.
> > > 
> > > When running with 2 serial ports, any input from a serial terminal
> > > running at the wrong baud rate (9600 instead of 115.2K) on a 2nd shell
> > > (not the console shell) causes the kernel to lock up. It doesn't
> > > crash, I'm still trying to understand what it's doing.  I can no
> > > longer ping the board as the network was working prior.
> > > 
> > > I just wanted to make sure there's not any known tty issues related to
> > > this.
> > 
> > There are some odd issues with stuff in this area, care to try 3.0-rc3
> > and see if the problem is there as well or not?

I'll give it a try if I can get some time today. Thanks for input Greg.

> 
> If its driver specific as this seems I'd take a guess on the driver
> for the hardware not properly handling framing errors or break so you get
> an irq storm or some other failure from the framing error.

I was thinking in the same direction as Alan also.  Appreciate the input.

-- John
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