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Samir Virmani aff9cf5955 uart: Fix crash in uart_write and uart_put_char
We were experiencing a crash similar to the one reported as part of
commit:a5ba1d95e46e ("uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and
uart_shutdown()") in our testbed as well. We continue to observe the same
crash after integrating the commit a5ba1d95e4 ("uart: fix race between
uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()")

On reviewing the change, the port lock should be taken prior to checking for
if (!circ->buf) in fn. __uart_put_char and other fns. that update the buffer
uart_state->xmit.

Traceback:

[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4870] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
                           at virtual address 0000003b

[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] PC is at memcpy+0x48/0x180
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] LR is at uart_write+0x74/0x120
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] pc : [<ffffffc0002e6808>]
                           lr : [<ffffffc0003747cc>] pstate: 000001c5
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] sp : ffffffc076433d30
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x29: ffffffc076433d30 x28: 0000000000000140
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x27: ffffffc0009b9d5e x26: ffffffc07ce36580
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000140
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x23: ffffffc000891200 x22: ffffffc01fc34000
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x21: 0000000000000fff x20: 0000000000000076
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x19: 0000000000000076 x18: 0000000000000000
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x17: 000000000047cf08 x16: ffffffc000099e68
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x15: 0000000000000018 x14: 776d726966205948
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x13: 50203a6c6974755f x12: 74647075205d3333
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x11: 3a35323a36203831 x10: 30322f37322f3131
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x9 : 5b205d303638342e x8 : 746164206f742070
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x7 : 7520736920657261 x6 : 000000000000003b
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x5 : 000000000000817a x4 : 0000000000000008
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x3 : 2f37322f31312a5b x2 : 000000000000006e
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x1 : ffffffc0009b9cf0 x0 : 000000000000003b

[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] CPU2: stopping
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Tainted: P      D    O    4.1.51 #3
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] Hardware name: Broadcom-v8A (DT)
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] Call trace:
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc0000883b8>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x150
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc00008851c>] show_stack+0x14/0x20
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc0005ee810>] dump_stack+0x90/0xb0
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc00008e844>] handle_IPI+0x18c/0x1a0
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc000080c68>] gic_handle_irq+0x88/0x90

Fixes: a5ba1d95e4 ("uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Samir Virmani <samir@embedur.com>
Acked-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-18 13:03:47 +01:00
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