Commit 05d81d22 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f31ad92f
......@@ -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;
......
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