commit 2f70e49ed860020f5abae4f7015018ebc10e1f0e upstream. At the moment opening a serial device node (such as /dev/ttyS3) succeeds even if there is no actual serial device behind it. Reading/writing/ioctls fail as expected because the uart port is not initialized (the type is PORT_UNKNOWN) and the TTY_IO_ERROR error state bit is set fot the tty. However setting line discipline does not have these checks 8250_port.c (8250 is the default choice made by univ8250_console_init()). As the result of PORT_UNKNOWN, uart_port::iobase is NULL which a platform translates onto some address accessing which produces a crash like below. This adds tty_port_initialized() to uart_set_ldisc() to prevent the crash. Found by syzkaller. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201203055834.45838-1-aik@ozlabs.ru Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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