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Subject[tip:x86/urgent] x86: early_printk: Protect against using the same device twice
Commit-ID:  429a6e5e2c1fbe5d805aad123efbdb5f0c14769f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/429a6e5e2c1fbe5d805aad123efbdb5f0c14769f
Author: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:13:13 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:01:13 +0200

x86: early_printk: Protect against using the same device twice

If you use the kernel argument:

earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200

This will cause a recursive hang printing the same line
again and again:

BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled
Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6 (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6 (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6 (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6 (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6 (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009

Instead warn the end user that they specified the device
a second time, and ignore that second console.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4ABAAB89.1080407@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
index 2acfd3f..41fd965 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ asmlinkage void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)

static inline void early_console_register(struct console *con, int keep_early)
{
+ if (early_console->index != -1) {
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "ERROR: earlyprintk= %s already used\n",
+ con->name);
+ return;
+ }
early_console = con;
if (keep_early)
early_console->flags &= ~CON_BOOT;

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