On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, John Keeping wrote:

When flushing the serial port's buffer, uart_flush_buffer() calls kfifo_reset() but if there is an outstanding DMA transfer then the completion function will consume data from the kfifo via uart_xmit_advance(), underflowing and leading to ongoing DMA as the driver tries to transmit another 2^32 bytes.

This is readily reproduced with serial-generic and amidi sending even short messages as closing the device on exit will wait for the fifo to drain and in the underflow case amidi hangs for 30 seconds on exit in tty_wait_until_sent(). A trace of that gives:

 kworker/1:1-84    [001]    51.769423: bprint:               serial8250_tx_dma: tx_size=3 fifo_len=3
       amidi-763   [001]    51.769460: bprint:               uart_flush_buffer: resetting fifo

irq/21-fe530000-76 [000] 51.769474: bprint: __dma_tx_complete: tx_size=3 irq/21-fe530000-76 [000] 51.769479: bprint: serial8250_tx_dma: tx_size=4096 fifo_len=4294967293 irq/21-fe530000-76 [000] 51.781295: bprint: __dma_tx_complete: tx_size=4096 irq/21-fe530000-76 [000] 51.781301: bprint: serial8250_tx_dma: tx_size=4096 fifo_len=4294963197 irq/21-fe530000-76 [000] 51.793131: bprint: __dma_tx_complete: tx_size=4096 irq/21-fe530000-76 [000] 51.793135: bprint: serial8250_tx_dma: tx_size=4096 fifo_len=4294959101 irq/21-fe530000-76 [000] 51.804949: bprint: __dma_tx_complete: tx_size=4096

Since the port lock is held in when the kfifo is reset in uart_flush_buffer() and in __dma_tx_complete(), adding a flush_buffer hook to adjust the outstanding DMA byte count is sufficient to avoid the kfifo underflow.

Fixes: 9ee4b83e51f74 ("serial: 8250: Add support for dmaengine") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Keeping jkeeping@inmusicbrands.com

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Changes in v2:

• Add Fixes: tag
• Return early to reduce indentation in serial8250_tx_dma_flush()

drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 9 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h index 11e05aa014e54..8ef45622e4363 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ static inline int is_omap1510_8250(struct uart_8250_port *pt) #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA extern int serial8250_tx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *); +extern void serial8250_tx_dma_flush(struct uart_8250_port *); extern int serial8250_rx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *); extern void serial8250_rx_dma_flush(struct uart_8250_port *); extern int serial8250_request_dma(struct uart_8250_port *);

Will build fail if !CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA ?

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c index d215c494ee24c..f245a84f4a508 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c @@ -149,6 +149,22 @@ int serial8250_tx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p) return ret; } +void serial8250_tx_dma_flush(struct uart_8250_port *p) +{

• struct uart_8250_dma *dma = p->dma;
• if (!dma->tx_running)

• return;
  

• /*

• * kfifo_reset() has been called by the serial core, avoid
  

• * advancing and underflowing in __dma_tx_complete().
  

• */
  

• dma->tx_size = 0;
• dmaengine_terminate_async(dma->rxchan);

+}

int serial8250_rx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p) { struct uart_8250_dma *dma = p->dma; diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c index d7976a21cca9c..442967a6cd52d 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c @@ -2555,6 +2555,14 @@ static void serial8250_shutdown(struct uart_port *port) serial8250_do_shutdown(port); } +static void serial8250_flush_buffer(struct uart_port *port) +{

• struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(port);
• if (up->dma)

• serial8250_tx_dma_flush(up);
  

+}

static unsigned int serial8250_do_get_divisor(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int baud, unsigned int *frac) @@ -3244,6 +3252,7 @@ static const struct uart_ops serial8250_pops = { .break_ctl = serial8250_break_ctl, .startup = serial8250_startup, .shutdown = serial8250_shutdown,

• .flush_buffer = serial8250_flush_buffer, .set_termios = serial8250_set_termios, .set_ldisc = serial8250_set_ldisc, .pm = serial8250_pm,