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serial: 8250: dispatch SysRq character in serial8250_handle_irq()
authorJacques Nilo <jnilo@free.fr>
Wed, 13 May 2026 13:30:24 +0000 (15:30 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 22 May 2026 09:51:35 +0000 (11:51 +0200)
commit71f42b2149a1307a97165b409493665579462ea0
tree0685264243c0c60d9861b76ec96a42001e60d41b
parentc3cce2e67bb22a223f5b8ef05db0fcde70994068
serial: 8250: dispatch SysRq character in serial8250_handle_irq()

serial8250_handle_irq() captures a SysRq character into port->sysrq_ch
inside serial8250_handle_irq_locked() via uart_prepare_sysrq_char()
(reached from serial8250_read_char()). Dispatch of that captured
character to handle_sysrq() is expected to happen at port-unlock time,
through uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq[_irqrestore]().

After commit 8324a54f604d ("serial: 8250: Add
serial8250_handle_irq_locked()") the function was reduced to a wrapper
that takes the port lock via guard(uart_port_lock_irqsave) whose
destructor is plain uart_port_unlock_irqrestore(). The sysrq-aware
unlock helper is no longer called, so port->sysrq_ch is captured but
never dispatched: BREAK + SysRq key is consumed silently.

This was the very condition Johan Hovold's 853a9ae29e978 ("serial:
8250: fix handle_irq locking", 2021) introduced
uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq_irqrestore() to address.

Switch to the new guard(uart_port_lock_check_sysrq_irqsave), whose
destructor is the sysrq-aware unlock helper, restoring the pre-split
behaviour. Update the Context: comment on serial8250_handle_irq_locked()
so future HW-specific 8250 wrappers know to use the same guard or the
explicit sysrq-aware unlock.

Verified on RTL8196E with CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL=y: BREAK + 'h' on
the console UART produces the SysRq help dump in dmesg and the brk
counter in /proc/tty/driver/serial increments correctly.

Fixes: 8324a54f604d ("serial: 8250: Add serial8250_handle_irq_locked()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacques Nilo <jnilo@free.fr>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/52692ae6c3501f7940347cef364ad7fcacaab7e5.1778675349.git.jnilo@free.fr
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c