From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 8250 serial issues in 2.6.0-test9
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:23:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310301423.47442.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
Hi Russell,
I know you don't want to mess with the setserial problem I
tripped over, and that's fine -- it's not a huge issue for
me. While poking around at it, I noticed a couple other
issues, which I'll just mention here in case anybody else
wants to have a go at reworking this code.
Mostly this mail is just because I'm about to go on vacation,
and didn't want all my pondering to be completely wasted :-)
Bjorn
serial8250_release_port():
When releasing an RSA port, it looks like serial8250_release_port()
releases the wrong range ("start + offset" rather than "start")
for the standard IO port region.
serial8250_request_port():
The error path ("ret < 0") leaks memory because request_region()
kmallocs the new resource, but release_resource() doesn't free it.
serial8250_config_port():
Same leak as in serial8250_request_port().
serial8250_release_port()/serial8250_request_port():
The problem I mentioned before -- _request_port() doesn't
ioremap the region that was iounmapped by _release_port(),
so "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8" causes an oops if
ttyS0 is an MMIO uart:
uart_set_info()
serial8250_release_port()
iounmap(membase);
membase = NULL;
release_mem_region(mapbase, ...);
serial8250_request_port()
request_mem_region(mapbase, ...);
serial8250_startup()
serial_out()
port.iotype == IO_MEM, so
writeb(value, membase);
oops - null pointer dereference (membase == NULL)
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