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serial: Fix not set tty->port race condition
authorKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:21:40 +0000 (08:21 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:23:09 +0000 (17:23 +0100)
commit32f37e57583f869140cff445feedeea8a5fea986
tree58925c5e8d90b6b0686c6a07683bac76d95fbd60
parent27aff0a56b3c77ea1a73641c9b3c4172a8f7238f
serial: Fix not set tty->port race condition

Revert commit bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant
tty_port_link_device()") because the tty_port_link_device() is not
redundant: the tty->port has to be confured before we call
uart_configure_port(), otherwise user-space can open console without TTY
linked to the driver.

This tty_port_link_device() was added explicitly to avoid this exact
issue in commit fb2b90014d78 ("tty: link tty and port before configuring
it as console"), so offending commit basically reverted the fix saying
it is redundant without addressing the actual race condition presented
there.

Reproducible always as tty->port warning on Qualcomm SoC with most of
devices disabled, so with very fast boot, and one serial device being
the console:

  printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
  printk: legacy console [ttyMSM0] enabled
  printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
  printk: legacy bootconsole [qcom_geni0] disabled
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  tty_init_dev: ttyMSM driver does not set tty->port. This would crash the kernel. Fix the driver!
  WARNING: drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 at tty_init_dev.part.0+0x228/0x25c, CPU#2: systemd/1
  Modules linked in: socinfo tcsrcc_eliza gcc_eliza sm3_ce fuse ipv6
  CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G S                  6.19.0-rc4-next-20260108-00024-g2202f4d30aa8 #73 PREEMPT
  Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
  Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Eliza (DT)
  ...
  tty_init_dev.part.0 (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414 (discriminator 11)) (P)
  tty_open (arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h:95 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 (discriminator 3) drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120 (discriminator 3))
  chrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:411)
  do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:962)
  vfs_open (fs/open.c:1094)
  do_open (fs/namei.c:4634)
  path_openat (fs/namei.c:4793)
  do_filp_open (fs/namei.c:4820)
  do_sys_openat2 (fs/open.c:1391 (discriminator 3))
  ...
  Starting Network Name Resolution...

Apparently the flow with this small Yocto-based ramdisk user-space is:

driver (qcom_geni_serial.c):                  user-space:
============================                  ===========
qcom_geni_serial_probe()
 uart_add_one_port()
  serial_core_register_port()
   serial_core_add_one_port()
    uart_configure_port()
     register_console()
    |
    |                                         open console
    |                                          ...
    |                                          tty_init_dev()
    |                                           driver->ports[idx] is NULL
    |
    tty_port_register_device_attr_serdev()
     tty_port_link_device() <- set driver->ports[idx]

Fixes: bfc467db60b7 ("serial: remove redundant tty_port_link_device()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123072139.53293-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c