[PATCH 4.9 058/120] Revert "tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 18 2017 - 06:15:33 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6741f551a0b26479de2532ffa43a366747e6dbf3 upstream.

This commit needs to be reverted because it prevents people from
using the serial console as a secondary console with input being
directed to tty0.

IOW, if you boot with console=ttyS0 console=tty0 then all kernels
prior to this commit will produce output on both ttyS0 and tty0
but input will only be taken from tty0. With this patch the serial
console will always be the primary console instead of tty0,
potentially preventing people from getting into their machines in
emergency situations.

Fixes: d03516df8375 ("tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ static struct console univ8250_console =
.device = uart_console_device,
.setup = univ8250_console_setup,
.match = univ8250_console_match,
- .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME | CON_CONSDEV,
+ .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME,
.index = -1,
.data = &serial8250_reg,
};