This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: amba-pl011: use port lock to guard control register access
to the 3.10-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-amba-pl011-use-port-lock-to-guard-control-register-access.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From fe43390702a1b5741fdf217063b05c7612b38303 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Medhurst <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:18:58 +0000
Subject: serial: amba-pl011: use port lock to guard control register access
From: Jon Medhurst <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit fe43390702a1b5741fdf217063b05c7612b38303 upstream.
When the pl011 is being used for a console, pl011_console_write forces
the control register (CR) to enable the UART for transmission and then
restores this to the original value afterwards. It does this while
holding the port lock.
Unfortunately, when the uart is started or shutdown - say in response to
userland using the serial device for a terminal - then this updates the
control register without any locking.
This means we can have
pl011_console_write Save CR
pl011_startup Initialise CR, e.g. enable receive
pl011_console_write Restore old CR with receive not enabled
this result is a serial port which doesn't respond to any input.
A similar race in reverse could happen when the device is shutdown.
We can fix these problems by taking the port lock when updating CR.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
@@ -1543,6 +1543,8 @@ static int pl011_startup(struct uart_por
/*
* Provoke TX FIFO interrupt into asserting.
*/
+ spin_lock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
+
cr = UART01x_CR_UARTEN | UART011_CR_TXE | UART011_CR_LBE;
writew(cr, uap->port.membase + UART011_CR);
writew(0, uap->port.membase + UART011_FBRD);
@@ -1567,6 +1569,8 @@ static int pl011_startup(struct uart_por
cr |= UART01x_CR_UARTEN | UART011_CR_RXE | UART011_CR_TXE;
writew(cr, uap->port.membase + UART011_CR);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
+
/*
* initialise the old status of the modem signals
*/
@@ -1636,11 +1640,13 @@ static void pl011_shutdown(struct uart_p
* it during startup().
*/
uap->autorts = false;
+ spin_lock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
cr = readw(uap->port.membase + UART011_CR);
uap->old_cr = cr;
cr &= UART011_CR_RTS | UART011_CR_DTR;
cr |= UART01x_CR_UARTEN | UART011_CR_TXE;
writew(cr, uap->port.membase + UART011_CR);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
/*
* disable break condition and fifos
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tixy@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/serial-amba-pl011-use-port-lock-to-guard-control-register-access.patch
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