[PATCH] serial: meson: unregister the UART driver if port registration fails
Jiri Slaby
jirislaby at kernel.org
Tue Nov 3 23:02:33 PST 2026
On 04. 11. 26, 3:15, Wentao Liang wrote:
> meson_uart_probe() registers the shared uart_driver on the first port and
> relies on meson_uart_remove() to unregister it once the last port is
> removed. If uart_add_one_port() fails, probe returns an error, so remove
> is never called and the driver stays registered, leaking its tty driver
> and per-port state.
>
> Remember whether this probe registered the driver and unregister it again
> when adding the port fails.
>
> Fixes: e71aab9d6132 ("tty: serial: meson: apply ttyS devname instead of ttyAML for new SoCs")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and OpenAI Codex
> Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab at iscas.ac.cn>
makes sense to me:
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
> index a6cb2a535f9d..a51362f73dee 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
> @@ -702,6 +702,7 @@ static int meson_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> int ret = 0;
> int irq;
> bool has_rtscts;
> + bool registered = false;
>
> if (pdev->dev.of_node)
> pdev->id = of_alias_get_id(pdev->dev.of_node, "serial");
> @@ -753,6 +754,7 @@ static int meson_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> if (ret)
> return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret,
> "can't register uart driver\n");
> + registered = true;
> }
>
> port->iotype = UPIO_MEM;
> @@ -781,8 +783,11 @@ static int meson_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> }
>
> ret = uart_add_one_port(uart_driver, port);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> meson_ports[pdev->id] = NULL;
> + if (registered)
> + uart_unregister_driver(uart_driver);
> + }
>
> return ret;
> }
--
js
suse labs
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