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serial: core: Keep mctrl register state and cached copy in sync
authorLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Sun, 2 Jan 2022 17:52:44 +0000 (18:52 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:01:48 +0000 (16:01 +0100)
commit93a770b7e16772530196674ffc79bb13fa927dc6
treef1bb8b416901fbd28906e3347b40c3f539b9713e
parent195437d14fb424a2ee50d51441181f16fd549789
serial: core: Keep mctrl register state and cached copy in sync

struct uart_port contains a cached copy of the Modem Control signals.
It is used to skip register writes in uart_update_mctrl() if the new
signal state equals the old signal state.  It also avoids a register
read to obtain the current state of output signals.

When a uart_port is registered, uart_configure_port() changes signal
state but neglects to keep the cached copy in sync.  That may cause
a subsequent register write to be incorrectly skipped.  Fix it before
it trips somebody up.

This behavior has been present ever since the serial core was introduced
in 2002:
https://git.kernel.org/history/history/c/33c0d1b0c3eb

So far it was never an issue because the cached copy is initialized to 0
by kzalloc() and when uart_configure_port() is executed, at most DTR has
been set by uart_set_options() or sunsu_console_setup().  Therefore,
a stable designation seems unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bceeaba030b028ed810272d55d5fc6f3656ddddb.1641129752.git.lukas@wunner.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c