[PATCH] tty: serial: 21285: fix lockup on open

Russell King rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk
Sun Oct 18 04:42:04 EDT 2020


Commit 293f89959483 ("tty: serial: 21285: stop using the unused[]
variable from struct uart_port") introduced a bug which stops the
transmit interrupt being disabled when there are no characters to
transmit - disabling the transmit interrupt at the interrupt controller
is the only way to stop an interrupt storm. If this interrupt is not
disabled when there are no transmit characters, we end up with an
interrupt storm which prevents the machine making forward progress.

Fixes: 293f89959483 ("tty: serial: 21285: stop using the unused[] variable from struct uart_port")
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/21285.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/21285.c b/drivers/tty/serial/21285.c
index 718e010fcb04..09baef4ccc39 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/21285.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/21285.c
@@ -50,25 +50,25 @@ static const char serial21285_name[] = "Footbridge UART";
 
 static bool is_enabled(struct uart_port *port, int bit)
 {
-	unsigned long private_data = (unsigned long)port->private_data;
+	unsigned long *private_data = (unsigned long *)&port->private_data;
 
-	if (test_bit(bit, &private_data))
+	if (test_bit(bit, private_data))
 		return true;
 	return false;
 }
 
 static void enable(struct uart_port *port, int bit)
 {
-	unsigned long private_data = (unsigned long)port->private_data;
+	unsigned long *private_data = (unsigned long *)&port->private_data;
 
-	set_bit(bit, &private_data);
+	set_bit(bit, private_data);
 }
 
 static void disable(struct uart_port *port, int bit)
 {
-	unsigned long private_data = (unsigned long)port->private_data;
+	unsigned long *private_data = (unsigned long *)&port->private_data;
 
-	clear_bit(bit, &private_data);
+	clear_bit(bit, private_data);
 }
 
 #define is_tx_enabled(port)	is_enabled(port, tx_enabled_bit)
-- 
2.20.1




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