serial: Test for no tx data on tx restart

Commit 717f3bbab3c7628736ef738fdbf3d9a28578c26c,
'serial_core: Fix conditional start_tx on ring buffer not empty'
exposes an incorrect assumption in several drivers' start_tx methods;
the tx ring buffer can, in fact, be empty when restarting tx while
performing flow control.

Affected drivers:
sunsab.c
ip22zilog.c
pmac_zilog.c
sunzilog.c
m32r_sio.c
imx.c

Other in-tree serial drivers either are not affected or already
test for empty tx ring buffer before transmitting.

Test for empty tx ring buffer in start_tx() method, after transmitting
x_char (if applicable).

Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: Seth Bollinger <sethb@digi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sunzilog.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sunzilog.c
index a85db8b87156..02df3940b95e 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sunzilog.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sunzilog.c
@@ -703,6 +703,8 @@ static void sunzilog_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
 	} else {
 		struct circ_buf *xmit = &port->state->xmit;
 
+		if (uart_circ_empty(xmit))
+			return;
 		writeb(xmit->buf[xmit->tail], &channel->data);
 		ZSDELAY();
 		ZS_WSYNC(channel);