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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tty: serial: samsung_tty: do not abuse the struct uart_port unused fields
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On 12/17/19 2:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The samsung_tty driver was trying to abuse the struct uart_port by using
> two "empty" bytes for its own use. That's not ok, and was found by
> removing those fields from the structure.
>
> Move the variables into the port-specific structure, which is where
> everything else for this port already is. There is no space wasted here
> as there was an empty "hole" in the structure already for these bytes.

Thanks!
Sorry for not noticing this myself.

> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org>
> Cc: Hyunki Koo <kkoos00@naver.com>
> Cc: HYUN-KI KOO <hyunki00.koo@samsung.com>
> Cc: Shinbeom Choi <sbeom.choi@samsung.com>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

I see you already applied it to your tree, but in case it helps anything:
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>

Thanks,
Dmitry

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