On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:27 PM Francesco Dolcini
[off-list ref] wrote:

From: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>

If the device used as a serial console gets detached/attached at runtime,
register_console() will try to call imx_uart_setup_console(), but this
is not possible since it is marked as __init.

Thank you for fixing this!

For instance

  # cat /sys/devices/virtual/tty/console/active
  tty1 ttymxc0
  # echo -n N > /sys/devices/virtual/tty/console/subsystem/ttymxc0/console
  # echo -n Y > /sys/devices/virtual/tty/console/subsystem/ttymxc0/console

Can we leave only something like below in the commit message?

[   73.167005] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c154d928
[   73.168304] Internal error: Oops: 8000000d [#1] SMP ARM
[   73.168522] CPU: 0 PID: 536 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6-00056-g3968ddcf05fb #3

  ...

[   73.168791] PC is at imx_uart_console_setup+0x0/0x238
[   73.168927] LR is at try_enable_new_console+0x98/0x124

  ...

[   73.173826] [<c0196f44>] (try_enable_new_console) from [<c01984a8>] (register_console+0x10c/0x2ec)
[   73.174053] [<c01984a8>] (register_console) from [<c06e2c90>] (console_store+0x14c/0x168)
[   73.174262] [<c06e2c90>] (console_store) from [<c0383718>] (kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x110/0x1cc)

A similar issue could be triggered unbinding/binding the serial console

on unbinding/binding

device [*].

Drop __init so that imx_uart_setup_console() can be safely called at
runtime.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181114174940.7865-3-stefan@agner.ch/ (local)

Make it Link: tag?

Fixes: a3cb39d258ef ("serial: core: Allow detach and attach serial device for console")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <redacted>

With above nit-picks addressed, FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <redacted>

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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