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