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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2008-07-12 13:47:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-12 14:33:41 -0700
commit05d81d2222beec7b63ac8c1c8cdb5bb4f82c2bad (patch)
tree787aaa15af631f6466476ee3ef6ec6c16888d59e /drivers/serial
parentf31ad92f34913043cf008d6e479e92dfbaf02df1 (diff)
serial8250: sanity check nr_uarts on all paths.
I had 8250.nr_uarts=16 in the boot line of a test kernel and I had a weird mysterious crash in sysfs. After taking an in-depth look I realized that CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS was set to 4 and I was walking off the end of the serial8250_ports array. Ouch!!! Don't let this happen to someone else. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/serial')
-rw-r--r--drivers/serial/8250.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c
index 1bc00b721e9..be95e55b228 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
@@ -2623,6 +2623,9 @@ static struct console serial8250_console = {
static int __init serial8250_console_init(void)
{
+ if (nr_uarts > UART_NR)
+ nr_uarts = UART_NR;
+
serial8250_isa_init_ports();
register_console(&serial8250_console);
return 0;