Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: Fix breakage when HAVE_CLK=n

[James Hogan]

Hi Greg,

On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:09:58PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> Commit 6a171b299379 ("serial: 8250_dw: Allow hardware flow control to be
> used") recently broke the 8250_dw driver on platforms which don't select
> HAVE_CLK, as dw8250_set_termios() gets confused by the behaviour of the
> fallback HAVE_CLK=n clock API in linux/clk.h which pretends everything
> is fine but returns (valid) NULL clocks and 0 HZ clock rates.
> 
> That 0 rate is written into the uartclk resulting in a crash at boot,
> e.g. on Cavium Octeon III based UTM-8 we get something like this:
> 
> 1180000000800.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1180000000800 (irq = 41, base_baud = 25000000) is a OCTEON
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:441 uart_get_baud_rate+0xfc/0x1f0
> ...
> Call Trace:
> ...
> [<ffffffff8149c2e4>] uart_get_baud_rate+0xfc/0x1f0
> [<ffffffff814a5098>] serial8250_do_set_termios+0xb0/0x440
> [<ffffffff8149c710>] uart_set_options+0xe8/0x190
> [<ffffffff814a6cdc>] serial8250_console_setup+0x84/0x158
> [<ffffffff814a11ec>] univ8250_console_setup+0x54/0x70
> [<ffffffff811901a0>] register_console+0x1c8/0x418
> [<ffffffff8149f004>] uart_add_one_port+0x434/0x4b0
> [<ffffffff814a1af8>] serial8250_register_8250_port+0x2d8/0x440
> [<ffffffff814aa620>] dw8250_probe+0x388/0x5e8
> ...
> 
> The clock API is defined such that NULL is a valid clock handle so it
> wouldn't be right to check explicitly for NULL. Instead treat a
> clk_round_rate() return value of 0 as an error which prevents uartclk
> being overwritten.
> 
> Fixes: 6a171b299379 ("serial: 8250_dw: Allow hardware flow control to be used")
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Uy <jason.uy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-clk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Any chance we could have this patch in v4.11-rc3?

As Andy pointed out, it depends on Heiko's patch:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg25483.html

Thanks
James

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