On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:20:56 +0100, Florian Achleitner wrote: > We found that our sc16is7xx on spi reported a TX fifo free space value > (TXLVL_REG) of 255 ocassionally, which is obviously wrong, with a > 64 byte fifo (and caused a buffer overrun, which is fixed seperately). > > To trigger this, a large write to the tty is sufficient. The fifo fills, > TXLVL_REG reads zero, but the handle_tx function does a zero-data-length > write to the TX fifo anyways through sc16is7xx_fifo_write. The next > TXLVL_REG read then yields 255, for unknown reasons. A subsequent read > is ok. > > Prevent zero-data-length writes if the TX fifo is full, because they are > pointless, and because they trigger wrong TXLVL read-outs. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <achleitner.florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c > index 107a099..b00fa25 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c > @@ -389,6 +389,13 @@ static void sc16is7xx_fifo_write(struct uart_port *port, u8 to_send) > const u8 line = sc16is7xx_line(port); > u8 addr = (SC16IS7XX_THR_REG << SC16IS7XX_REG_SHIFT) | line; > > + /* > + * Don't send zero-length data, at least on SPI it confuses the chip reading > + * wrong TXLVL data. > + */ > + if (unlikely(!to_send)) > + return; > + > regcache_cache_bypass(s->regmap, true); > regmap_raw_write(s->regmap, addr, s->buf, to_send); > regcache_cache_bypass(s->regmap, false); > @@ -630,6 +637,11 @@ static void sc16is7xx_handle_tx(struct uart_port *port) > if (likely(to_send)) { > /* Limit to size of TX FIFO */ > txlen = sc16is7xx_port_read(port, SC16IS7XX_TXLVL_REG); > + if (txlen > SC16IS7XX_FIFO_SIZE) { > + dev_err_ratelimited(port->dev, "chip reports %d free bytes in TX " > + "fifo, but it only has %d", txlen, SC16IS7XX_FIFO_SIZE); > + txlen = 0; > + } > to_send = (to_send > txlen) ? txlen : to_send; > /* prevent buffer overrun if reported txlen is flawed */ > to_send = (to_send > SC16IS7XX_FIFO_SIZE) ? SC16IS7XX_FIFO_SIZE : to_send; Please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches In particular make sure your commit message is wrapped properly and that you run the checkpath.pl script with --strict option on your patches. You have some lines > 80 chars and split string here. Other than that change is looking good! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html