[PATCH 1/2] serial: 8250: Don't service RX FIFO if interrupts are disabled

From: Vignesh R
Date: Thu Feb 08 2018 - 07:56:00 EST


Currently, data in RX FIFO is read based on UART_LSR register state even
if RDI and RLSI interrupts are disabled in UART_IER register.
This is because when IRQ handler is called due to TX FIFO empty event,
RX FIFO is serviced based on UART_LSR register status instead of
UART_IIR status. This defeats the purpose of disabling UART RX
FIFO interrupts during throttling(see, omap_8250_throttle()) as IRQ
handler continues to drain UART RX FIFO resulting in overflow of buffer
at tty layer.
Fix this by making sure that driver drains UART RX FIFO only when
UART_IIR_RDI is set along with UART_LSR_BI or UART_LSR_DR bits.

Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 1328c7e70108..ffbb955d1c06 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1854,7 +1854,8 @@ int serial8250_handle_irq(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int iir)

status = serial_port_in(port, UART_LSR);

- if (status & (UART_LSR_DR | UART_LSR_BI)) {
+ if (status & (UART_LSR_DR | UART_LSR_BI) &&
+ iir & UART_IIR_RDI) {
if (!up->dma || handle_rx_dma(up, iir))
status = serial8250_rx_chars(up, status);
}
--
2.16.1