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In the following circumstances, the rule of selecting the console corresponding to the last "console=" entry on the command line as the preferred console (CON_CONSDEV, ie, /dev/console) fails. This is a specific example, but it could happen with different consoles that have a similar name aliasing mechanism. - The kernel command line has both console=tty0 and console=ttyS0 in that order (the latter with speed etc... arguments). This is common with some cloud setups such as Amazon Linux. - add_preferred_console is called early to register "uart0". In our case that happens from acpi_parse_spcr() on arm64 since the "enable_console" argument is true on that architecture. This causes "uart0" to become entry 0 of the console_cmdline array. Now, because of the above, what happens is: - add_preferred_console is called by the cmdline parsing for tty0 and ttyS0 respectively, thus occupying entries 1 and 2 of the console_cmdline array (since this happens after ACPI SPCR parsing). At that point preferred_console is set to 2 as expected. - When the tty layer kicks in, it will call register_console for tty0. This will match entry 1 in console_cmdline array. It isn't our preferred console but because it's our only console at this point, it will end up "first" in the consoles list. - When 8250 probes the actual serial port later on, it calls register_console for ttyS0. At that point the loop in register_console tries to match it with the entries in the console_cmdline array. Ideally this should match ttyS0 in entry 2, which is preferred, causing it to be inserted first and to replace tty0 as CONSDEV. However, 8250 provides a "match" hook in its struct console, and that hook will match "uart" as an alias to "ttyS". So we match uart0 at entry 0 in the array which is not the preferred console and will not match entry 2 which is since we break out of the loop on the first match. As a result, we don't set CONSDEV and don't insert it first, but second in the console list. As a result, we end up with tty0 remaining first in the array, and thus /dev/console going there instead of the last user specified one which is ttyS0. This tentative fix register_console() to scan first for consoles specified on the command line, and only if none is found, to then scan for consoles specified by the architecture. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200213095133.23176-3-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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435 B
C
16 lines
435 B
C
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
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#ifndef _CONSOLE_CMDLINE_H
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#define _CONSOLE_CMDLINE_H
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struct console_cmdline
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{
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char name[16]; /* Name of the driver */
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int index; /* Minor dev. to use */
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bool user_specified; /* Specified by command line vs. platform */
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char *options; /* Options for the driver */
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#ifdef CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE
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char *brl_options; /* Options for braille driver */
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#endif
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};
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#endif
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