If the earlycon parameter is given twice, the kernel will spit out a WARN() in register_console() because it was already registered. The non-dt variant setup_earlycon() already handles that gracefully. The dt variant of_setup_earlycon() doesn't. Add the check there and propagate it through early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(). FWIW, this doesn't happen if CONFIG_ACPI_SPCR_TABLE is set. In that case the registration is delayed until after earlycon parameter(s) are parsed. Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> --- I'm not sure if this should have a Fixes tag or not. If so I guess it should be the very first commit which introduced the support (commit fb11ffe74c79 ("of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon")). For the curious, here is the backtrace: [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/printk/printk.c:3328 register_console+0x2b4/0x364 [ 0.000000] console 'atmel_serial0' already registered [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.18.0-next-20220601+ #652 [ 0.000000] Hardware name: Generic DT based system [ 0.000000] Backtrace: [ 0.000000] dump_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c [ 0.000000] show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x54 [ 0.000000] dump_stack_lvl from dump_stack+0x18/0x1c [ 0.000000] dump_stack from __warn+0xd0/0x148 [ 0.000000] __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x9c/0xc4 [ 0.000000] warn_slowpath_fmt from register_console+0x2b4/0x364 [ 0.000000] register_console from of_setup_earlycon+0x29c/0x2ac [ 0.000000] of_setup_earlycon from early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout+0x154/0x18c [ 0.000000] early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout from param_setup_earlycon+0x40/0x48 [ 0.000000] param_setup_earlycon from do_early_param+0x88/0xc4 [ 0.000000] do_early_param from parse_args+0x1a4/0x404 [ 0.000000] parse_args from parse_early_options+0x40/0x48 [ 0.000000] parse_early_options from parse_early_param+0x38/0x48 [ 0.000000] parse_early_param from setup_arch+0x114/0x7a4 [ 0.000000] setup_arch from start_kernel+0x74/0x6dc [ 0.000000] start_kernel from 0x0 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- drivers/of/fdt.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c index a8f5b6532165..7f3524213b43 100644 --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c @@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(void) int l; const struct earlycon_id *match; const void *fdt = initial_boot_params; + int ret; offset = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/chosen"); if (offset < 0) @@ -1057,8 +1058,9 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(void) if (fdt_node_check_compatible(fdt, offset, match->compatible)) continue; - if (of_setup_earlycon(match, offset, options) == 0) - return 0; + ret = of_setup_earlycon(match, offset, options); + if (!ret || ret == -EALREADY) + return ret; } return -ENODEV; } diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c index 57c70851f22a..59fedf7be572 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c @@ -230,7 +230,10 @@ static int __init param_setup_earlycon(char *buf) earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable = true; return 0; } else if (!buf) { - return early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(); + err = early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(); + if (err == -EALREADY) + return 0; + return err; } } -- 2.30.2