From 32f37e57583f869140cff445feedeea8a5fea986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:21:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123072139.53293-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c index 9930023e924c2..2805cad105113 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -3074,6 +3074,12 @@ static int serial_core_add_one_port(struct uart_driver *drv, struct uart_port *u if (uport->cons && uport->dev) of_console_check(uport->dev->of_node, uport->cons->name, uport->line); + /* + * TTY port has to be linked with the driver before register_console() + * in uart_configure_port(), because user-space could open the console + * immediately after. + */ + tty_port_link_device(port, drv->tty_driver, uport->line); uart_configure_port(drv, state, uport); port->console = uart_console(uport); -- 2.47.3