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    serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it · 9cf7ea2e
    Andy Shevchenko authored
    The circular buffer is NULLified in uart_tty_port_shutdown()
    under the spin lock. However, the PM or other timer based callbacks
    may still trigger after this event without knowning that buffer pointer
    is not valid. Since the serial code is a bit inconsistent in checking
    the buffer state (some rely on the head-tail positions, some on the
    buffer pointer), it's better to have both aligned, i.e. buffer pointer
    to be NULL and head-tail possitions to be the same, meaning it's empty.
    This will prevent asynchronous calls to dereference NULL pointer as
    reported recently in 8250 case:
    
      BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000cf5
      Workqueue: pm pm_runtime_work
      EIP: serial8250_tx_chars (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1809)
      ...
      ? serial8250_tx_chars (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1809)
      __start_tx (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1551)
      serial8250_start_tx (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1654)
      serial_port_runtime_suspend (include/linux/serial_core.h:667 drivers/tty/serial/serial_port.c:63)
      __rpm_callback (drivers/base/power/runtime.c:393)
      ? serial_port_remove (drivers/tty/serial/serial_port.c:50)
      rpm_suspend (drivers/base/power/runtime.c:447)
    
    The proposed change will prevent ->start_tx() to be called during
    suspend on shut down port.
    
    Fixes: 43066e32 ("serial: port: Don't suspend if the port is still busy")
    Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
    Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202404031607.2e92eebe-lkp@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240404150034.41648-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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