On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 06:57:26PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > setserial changes the IRQ via uart_set_info(). It invokes > uart_shutdown() which free the current used IRQ and clear > TTY_PORT_INITIALIZED. It will then update the IRQ number and invoke > uart_startup() before returning to the caller leaving > TTY_PORT_INITIALIZED cleared. > > The next open will crash with > | list_add double add: new=ffffffff839fcc98, prev=ffffffff839fcc98, next=ffffffff839fcc98. > since the close from the IOCTL won't free the IRQ (and clean the list) > due to the TTY_PORT_INITIALIZED check in uart_shutdown(). > > There is same pattern in uart_do_autoconfig() and I *think* it also > needs to set TTY_PORT_INITIALIZED there. > Is there a reason why uart_startup() does not set the flag by itself > after the IRQ has been acquired (since it is cleared in uart_shutdown)? I have no idea, but this change makes sense to me, let's see what happens when we apply it :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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