[PATCHv2] serial: mxs-auart: fix probe error paths and clock handling

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Sun May 31 01:00:21 PDT 2026


On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 12:52 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2026 at 12:55:03PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > Sashiko reported three pre-existing bugs in the mxs-auart driver:
> >
> > - For non-ASM9260 variants, mxs_get_clks() obtained the clock but never
> >   prepared/enabled it, leaving register accesses in probe at risk of
> >   faulting if the bootloader had gated the clock.
> > - The error path and remove function used pdev->id instead of
> >   s->port.line to clear the auart_port[] slot.  For DT-probed devices
> >   pdev->id is -1, causing an out-of-bounds write and leaving a dangling
> >   pointer in the array.
> > - The probe error path called iounmap() while the IRQ was still
> >   registered. An interrupt during that window would dereference the
> >   unmapped membase.
>
> This should still be broken up into smaller pieces, don't you think?
>
> Whenever you have to list the different things you do in a patch, that's
> a huge hint to do so.
I'll do so. Although I doubt the bot will be happy either way.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



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