This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

serial: 8250_early: Only set divisor if valid clk & baud

to my tty git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git in the tty-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Matt Redfearn matt.redfearn@mips.com Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:57:28 +0000 Subject: serial: 8250_early: Only set divisor if valid clk & baud

If either uartclk or baud are 0, avoid calculating and setting a divisor based on them since the output will almost certainly be garbage.

This also allows platforms such as the MIPS generic kernel, which has no way to know a valid BASE_BASE for the board it is actually booted on at compile time, to set BASE_BAUD to 0 and avoid early_8250 setting a bad divisor.

This fixes a regression caused by commit 31cb9a8575ca ("earlycon: initialise baud field of earlycon device structure"), which changed the behavior of of_setup_earlycon such that it sets a baud rate in the earlycon structure where previously it was left as 0. All boards supported by the MIPS generic kernel started outputting garbage from the boot console due to an incorrect divisor being set.

Fixes: 31cb9a8575ca ("earlycon: initialise baud field of earlycon device structure") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14 Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn matt.redfearn@mips.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c index 362c25ff188a..ae6a256524d8 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c @@ -122,12 +122,14 @@ static void __init init_port(struct earlycon_device *device) serial8250_early_out(port, UART_FCR, 0); /* no fifo */ serial8250_early_out(port, UART_MCR, 0x3); /* DTR + RTS */

- divisor = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(port->uartclk, 16 * device->baud); - c = serial8250_early_in(port, UART_LCR); - serial8250_early_out(port, UART_LCR, c | UART_LCR_DLAB); - serial8250_early_out(port, UART_DLL, divisor & 0xff); - serial8250_early_out(port, UART_DLM, (divisor >> 8) & 0xff); - serial8250_early_out(port, UART_LCR, c & ~UART_LCR_DLAB); + if (port->uartclk && device->baud) { + divisor = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(port->uartclk, 16 * device->baud); + c = serial8250_early_in(port, UART_LCR); + serial8250_early_out(port, UART_LCR, c | UART_LCR_DLAB); + serial8250_early_out(port, UART_DLL, divisor & 0xff); + serial8250_early_out(port, UART_DLM, (divisor >> 8) & 0xff); + serial8250_early_out(port, UART_LCR, c & ~UART_LCR_DLAB); + } }

int __init early_serial8250_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,