Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: samsung_tty: do not abuse the struct uart_port unused fields

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On 12/17/19 2:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The samsung_tty driver was trying to abuse the struct uart_port by using
> two "empty" bytes for its own use.  That's not ok, and was found by
> removing those fields from the structure.
> 
> Move the variables into the port-specific structure, which is where
> everything else for this port already is.  There is no space wasted here
> as there was an empty "hole" in the structure already for these bytes.

Thanks!
Sorry for not noticing this myself.

> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hyunki Koo <kkoos00@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: HYUN-KI KOO <hyunki00.koo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shinbeom Choi <sbeom.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I see you already applied it to your tree, but in case it helps anything:
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
          Dmitry



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