Re: [PATCH] serial: amba-pl011: fix incorrect integer size in pl011_fifo_to_tty()

From: Dave Martin
Date: Fri Oct 16 2015 - 08:48:15 EST


On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:27:16PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> The UART_DUMMY_DR_RX status bit is equal to (1 << 16), so a u16 is too small
> to hold that value. The result is that UART_DUMMY_DR_RX is never passed
> to uart_insert_char(). This means that we're always accepting characters,
> even when CREAD (in termios) is not set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> index fd27e98..899a771 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> @@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ struct uart_amba_port {
> */
> static int pl011_fifo_to_tty(struct uart_amba_port *uap)
> {
> - u16 status, ch;
> - unsigned int flag, max_count = 256;
> + u16 status;
> + unsigned int ch, flag, max_count = 256;
> int fifotaken = 0;

FWIW,

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>

I guess this tells us something about how often !CREAD is used...

Cheers
---Dave

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