Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: sh-sci: Add missing call to uart_remove_one_port() in failure path

From: Simon Horman
Date: Wed Mar 05 2014 - 23:19:58 EST


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 02:21:33PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If cpufreq_register_notifier() fails, we have to remove the port added by
> sci_probe_single(), which is not done by sci_cleanup_single().
>
> Else the serial port stays active from the point of view of the serial
> subsystem, and it may crash when userspace getty is started, or when the
> loadable driver module is unloaded.
>
> This was introduced by commit 6dae14216c85eea13db7b12c469475c5d30e5499
> ("serial: sh-sci: Fix probe error paths").
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This looks reasonable to me.

Greg, could you take this one?


> ---
> This depends on "serial_core: Unregister console in uart_remove_one_port()"
> when using a serial console.
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> index be33d2b0613b..7958115e6a51 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> @@ -2564,6 +2564,7 @@ static int sci_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> ret = cpufreq_register_notifier(&sp->freq_transition,
> CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER);
> if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
> + uart_remove_one_port(&sci_uart_driver, &sp->port);
> sci_cleanup_single(sp);
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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