Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] serial: imx: fix detach/attach of serial console

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:54:26PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:27 PM Francesco Dolcini
> <francesco.dolcini@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > If the device used as a serial console gets detached/attached at runtime,
> > register_console() will try to call imx_uart_setup_console(), but this
> > is not possible since it is marked as __init.
> 
> Thank you for fixing this!
> 
> > For instance
> >
> >   # cat /sys/devices/virtual/tty/console/active
> >   tty1 ttymxc0
> >   # echo -n N > /sys/devices/virtual/tty/console/subsystem/ttymxc0/console
> >   # echo -n Y > /sys/devices/virtual/tty/console/subsystem/ttymxc0/console
> 
> Can we leave only something like below in the commit message?
> 
> > [   73.167005] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c154d928
> > [   73.168304] Internal error: Oops: 8000000d [#1] SMP ARM
> > [   73.168522] CPU: 0 PID: 536 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6-00056-g3968ddcf05fb #3
>   ...
> > [   73.168791] PC is at imx_uart_console_setup+0x0/0x238
> > [   73.168927] LR is at try_enable_new_console+0x98/0x124
>   ...
> > [   73.173826] [<c0196f44>] (try_enable_new_console) from [<c01984a8>] (register_console+0x10c/0x2ec)
> > [   73.174053] [<c01984a8>] (register_console) from [<c06e2c90>] (console_store+0x14c/0x168)
> > [   73.174262] [<c06e2c90>] (console_store) from [<c0383718>] (kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x110/0x1cc)
> 
> > A similar issue could be triggered unbinding/binding the serial console
> 
> on unbinding/binding
> 
> > device [*].
> >
> > Drop __init so that imx_uart_setup_console() can be safely called at
> > runtime.
> >
> > [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181114174940.7865-3-stefan@xxxxxxxx/
> 
> Make it Link: tag?
> 
> > Fixes: a3cb39d258ef ("serial: core: Allow detach and attach serial device for console")
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> With above nit-picks addressed, FWIW,

Those are not a big deal, I'll edit the changelog text...

thanks,

greg k-h



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