This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: max3100: Update uart_driver_registered on driver removal to the 5.10-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-max3100-update-uart_driver_registered-on-driv.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a7e824623d347b0939c6a96347f12805d8297138 Author: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 2 22:50:29 2024 +0300 serial: max3100: Update uart_driver_registered on driver removal [ Upstream commit 712a1fcb38dc7cac6da63ee79a88708fbf9c45ec ] The removal of the last MAX3100 device triggers the removal of the driver. However, code doesn't update the respective global variable and after insmod — rmmod — insmod cycle the kernel oopses: max3100 spi-PRP0001:01: max3100_probe: adding port 0 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000408 ... RIP: 0010:serial_core_register_port+0xa0/0x840 ... max3100_probe+0x1b6/0x280 [max3100] spi_probe+0x8d/0xb0 Update the actual state so next time UART driver will be registered again. Hugo also noticed, that the error path in the probe also affected by having the variable set, and not cleared. Instead of clearing it move the assignment after the successfull uart_register_driver() call. Fixes: 7831d56b0a35 ("tty: MAX3100") Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240402195306.269276-3-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c b/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c index 915d7753eec2f..c1ee88f530334 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c @@ -754,13 +754,14 @@ static int max3100_probe(struct spi_device *spi) mutex_lock(&max3100s_lock); if (!uart_driver_registered) { - uart_driver_registered = 1; retval = uart_register_driver(&max3100_uart_driver); if (retval) { printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't register max3100 uart driver\n"); mutex_unlock(&max3100s_lock); return retval; } + + uart_driver_registered = 1; } for (i = 0; i < MAX_MAX3100; i++) @@ -846,6 +847,7 @@ static int max3100_remove(struct spi_device *spi) } pr_debug("removing max3100 driver\n"); uart_unregister_driver(&max3100_uart_driver); + uart_driver_registered = 0; mutex_unlock(&max3100s_lock); return 0;