Re: [RFC PATCH] serial: core: mark port as initialized after successful IRQ change

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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
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