This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: pch: don't overwrite xmit->buf[0] by x_char to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: serial-pch-don-t-overwrite-xmit-buf-by-x_char.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d9f3af4fbb1d955bbaf872d9e76502f6e3e803cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 10:08:03 +0200 Subject: serial: pch: don't overwrite xmit->buf[0] by x_char From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> commit d9f3af4fbb1d955bbaf872d9e76502f6e3e803cb upstream. When x_char is to be sent, the TX path overwrites whatever is in the circular buffer at offset 0 with x_char and sends it using pch_uart_hal_write(). I don't understand how this was supposed to work if xmit->buf[0] already contained some character. It must have been lost. Remove this whole pop_tx_x() concept and do the work directly in the callers. (Without printing anything using dev_dbg().) Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3c6a483275f4 (Serial: EG20T: add PCH_UART driver) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220503080808.28332-1-jslaby@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 27 +++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c @@ -635,22 +635,6 @@ static int push_rx(struct eg20t_port *pr return 0; } -static int pop_tx_x(struct eg20t_port *priv, unsigned char *buf) -{ - int ret = 0; - struct uart_port *port = &priv->port; - - if (port->x_char) { - dev_dbg(priv->port.dev, "%s:X character send %02x (%lu)\n", - __func__, port->x_char, jiffies); - buf[0] = port->x_char; - port->x_char = 0; - ret = 1; - } - - return ret; -} - static int dma_push_rx(struct eg20t_port *priv, int size) { int room; @@ -900,9 +884,10 @@ static unsigned int handle_tx(struct eg2 fifo_size = max(priv->fifo_size, 1); tx_empty = 1; - if (pop_tx_x(priv, xmit->buf)) { - pch_uart_hal_write(priv, xmit->buf, 1); + if (port->x_char) { + pch_uart_hal_write(priv, &port->x_char, 1); port->icount.tx++; + port->x_char = 0; tx_empty = 0; fifo_size--; } @@ -957,9 +942,11 @@ static unsigned int dma_handle_tx(struct } fifo_size = max(priv->fifo_size, 1); - if (pop_tx_x(priv, xmit->buf)) { - pch_uart_hal_write(priv, xmit->buf, 1); + + if (port->x_char) { + pch_uart_hal_write(priv, &port->x_char, 1); port->icount.tx++; + port->x_char = 0; fifo_size--; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jslaby@xxxxxxx are queue-5.4/serial-pch-don-t-overwrite-xmit-buf-by-x_char.patch