Patch "serial: efm32: Fix parity management in 'efm32_uart_console_get_options()'" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

serial: efm32: Fix parity management in 'efm32_uart_console_get_options()'

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
serial-efm32-fix-parity-management-in-efm32_uart_console_get_options.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:35:45 +0200
Subject: serial: efm32: Fix parity management in 'efm32_uart_console_get_options()'
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From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

commit be40597a1bc173bf9dadccdf5388b956f620ae8f upstream.

UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD is 0x0300
UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN is 0x0200
So if the UART is configured for EVEN parity, it would be reported as ODD. Fix it by correctly testing if the 2 bits are set.

---
 drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #define UARTn_FRAME		0x04
 #define UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS__MASK	0x000f
 #define UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS(n)		((n) - 3)
+#define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY__MASK	0x0300
 #define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_NONE		0x0000
 #define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN		0x0200
 #define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD		0x0300

@@ -572,12 +573,16 @@ static void efm32_uart_console_get_optio
 			16 * (4 + (clkdiv >> 6)));
 
 	frame = efm32_uart_read32(efm_port, UARTn_FRAME);
-	if (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD)
+	switch (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY__MASK) {
+	case UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD:
 		*parity = 'o';
-	else if (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN)
+		break;
+	case UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN:
 		*parity = 'e';
-	else
+		break;
+	default:
 		*parity = 'n';
+	}
 
 	*bits = (frame & UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS__MASK) -
 			UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS(4) + 4;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.11/vb2-fix-an-off-by-one-error-in-vb2_plane_vaddr.patch queue-4.11/serial-efm32-fix-parity-management-in-efm32_uart_console_get_options.patch