USB: serial: fix console error reporting

Do not report errors in write path if port is used as a console as this
may trigger the same error (and error report) resulting in a loop.

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
index f7403576f99f6d04dfc28b0018875ffc1019a019..e129fcd69fd9f6fc1f5b1440c30e29c90efc36df 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
@@ -217,8 +217,10 @@ retry:
        clear_bit(i, &port->write_urbs_free);
        result = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (result) {
-               dev_err(&port->dev, "%s - error submitting urb: %d\n",
+               if (!port->port.console) {
+                       dev_err(&port->dev, "%s - error submitting urb: %d\n",
                                                __func__, result);
+               }
                set_bit(i, &port->write_urbs_free);
                spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
                port->tx_bytes -= count;