This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: 8250: moxa: Store num_ports in brd to the 4.9-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-8250-moxa-store-num_ports-in-brd.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:28:31 CEST 2017 From: "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 21:48:51 +0300 Subject: serial: 8250: moxa: Store num_ports in brd From: "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9c4b60fe5313c125b1bf68ef04b0010512c27f2d ] When struct moxa8250_board is allocated, then num_ports should be initialized in order to use it later in moxa8250_remove. Signed-off-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_moxa.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_moxa.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_moxa.c @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ static int moxa8250_probe(struct pci_dev sizeof(unsigned int) * nr_ports, GFP_KERNEL); if (!brd) return -ENOMEM; + brd->num_ports = nr_ports; memset(&uart, 0, sizeof(struct uart_8250_port)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from matwey@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/serial-8250-moxa-store-num_ports-in-brd.patch queue-4.9/serial-8250_port-remove-dangerous-pr_debug.patch