Commit af224ca2df29 (serial: core: Prevent unsafe uart port access, part 3) added few uport == NULL checks. It added one to uart_shutdown(), so the commit assumes, uport can be NULL in there. But right after that protection, there is an unprotected "uart_port_dtr_rts(uport, false);" call. That is invoked only if HUPCL is set, so I assume that is the reason why we do not see lots of these reports. Or it cannot be NULL at this point at all for some reason :P. Until the above is investigated, stay on the safe side and move this dereference to the if too. I got this inconsistency from Coverity under CID 1585130. Thanks. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c index 61c7e1268957..3afe77f05abf 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -407,14 +407,16 @@ static void uart_shutdown(struct tty_struct *tty, struct uart_state *state) /* * Turn off DTR and RTS early. */ - if (uport && uart_console(uport) && tty) { - uport->cons->cflag = tty->termios.c_cflag; - uport->cons->ispeed = tty->termios.c_ispeed; - uport->cons->ospeed = tty->termios.c_ospeed; - } + if (uport) { + if (uart_console(uport) && tty) { + uport->cons->cflag = tty->termios.c_cflag; + uport->cons->ispeed = tty->termios.c_ispeed; + uport->cons->ospeed = tty->termios.c_ospeed; + } - if (!tty || C_HUPCL(tty)) - uart_port_dtr_rts(uport, false); + if (!tty || C_HUPCL(tty)) + uart_port_dtr_rts(uport, false); + } uart_port_shutdown(port); } -- 2.46.0