Bug 237576 - UART NS8250 parity and frame errors detection doesn't work
Summary: UART NS8250 parity and frame errors detection doesn't work
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
URL: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20072
Keywords: patch
: 16765 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-04-26 08:30 UTC by Marius
Modified: 2022-12-04 22:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Marius 2019-04-26 08:30:58 UTC
On the UART NS8250 errors (parity/frame) are not detected when data is received because every time there is a read on LSR register the errors bit is removed. See [1]
Current UART core implementation relies on the LSR register to detect if data is received. If data is received LSR is read again in pair with DATA register to determine if the received byte generate any errors. At this time LSR error bit is clear so no errors are reported.

In code:
1. uart_core.c: `uart_intr()` calls `UART_IPEND` which will go into `ns8250_bus_ipend()`. Here LSR register is read and returns data received.
2. `uart_intr` calls `uart_intr_rxready` -> `UART_RECEIVE` -> `ns8250_bus_receive`. Here LSR is read again to check if the received byte generated error, but error bit from LSR is now 0. It was cleared by step 1.


[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/8250_UART_Programming#Line_Status_Register
Comment 1 Marius 2019-04-26 08:33:08 UTC
I have a patch in place that based on my tests is fixing the problem: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20072
Comment 2 Xin LI freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-12-04 22:02:27 UTC
*** Bug 16765 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***