[PATCH v7 1/2] serial: core: fix baud rate fallback in uart_get_baud_rate()
From: Hui Peng
Date: Wed Sep 30 2026 - 09:24:47 EST
When uart_get_baud_rate() is called with a baud rate exceeding the port's
maximum supported speed (port->uartclk / 16), it clips baud to [min,
max - 1] and encodes it into termios via tty_termios_encode_baud_rate().
However, because the loop bound is for (try = 0; try < 2; try++), the
loop terminates immediately after try == 1 without re-evaluating
baud = tty_termios_baud_rate(termios) for the clipped rate, hitting
WARN_ON(1) and returning 0, which then triggers a fatal divide-by-zero
(Oops: divide error) in uart_get_divisor():
WARNING: drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:548 at uart_get_baud_rate+0x136/0x260
[ ... ]
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
Increase the retry count in uart_get_baud_rate() from 2 to 3 iterations so
that clipped baud rates are re-evaluated in the third iteration.
Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by setting B4000000 on /dev/ttyS0 via
tcsetattr(): on the unfixed kernel it triggers WARN_ON(1) and divide-by-zero
Oops, whereas with this fix applied uart_get_baud_rate() smoothly falls back
to 115200 without error.
Fixes: 091ea8e5d34e ("serial: core: prevent division by zero by always returning non-zero baud rate")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index f91bcfa30113..6ed0195e6912 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ unsigned int uart_get_baud_rate(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termi
* Ask the low level driver to verify the baud rate if it can't
* then it will have encode_baud_rate set the Closet else .
*/
- for (try = 0; try < 2; try++) {
+ for (try = 0; try < 3; try++) {
baud = tty_termios_baud_rate(termios);
/*
--
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