From: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 31ca2c63fdc0aee725cbd4f207c1256f5deaabde upstream. If uart_flush_buffer() is called between atmel_tx_dma() and atmel_complete_tx_dma(), the circular buffer has been cleared, but not atmel_port->tx_len. That leads to a circular buffer overflow (dumping (UART_XMIT_SIZE - atmel_port->tx_len) bytes). Tested-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [rg] backport to 3.12 Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c index ab2e22bf54fd..04a809284d63 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c @@ -1690,6 +1690,11 @@ static void atmel_flush_buffer(struct uart_port *port) UART_PUT_TCR(port, 0); atmel_port->pdc_tx.ofs = 0; } + /* + * in uart_flush_buffer(), the xmit circular buffer has just + * been cleared, so we have to reset its length accordingly. + */ + sg_dma_len(&atmel_port->sg_tx) = 0; } /* -- 2.12.2