If a console was specified by ACPI SPCR table _and_ command line
parameters like "console=ttyAMA0" _and_ "earlycon" were specified,
then log messages appear twice.

The root cause is that the code traverses the list of specified
consoles (the `console_cmdline` array) and stops at the first match.
But it may happen that the same console is referred by the elements
of this array twice:

        pl011,mmio,0x87e024000000,115200 -- from SPCR
        ttyAMA0 -- from command line

but in this case `preferred_console` points to the second entry and
the flag CON_CONSDEV is not set, so bootconsole is not deregistered.

To fix that, introduce an invariant "The last non-braille console
is always the preferred one" on the entries of the console_cmdline
array.  Then traverse it in reverse order to be sure that if
the console is preferred then it will be the first matching entry.

Reported-by: Sudeep Holla <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <[email protected]>
---

v6 -> v7:
- return back to v5 :)
- leave the check for already registered entries and add a function that
  maintains the invariant.

v5 -> v6:
- drop v5 and continue to work on v4:
- introduce _braille_is_braille_console(). It helps to split original loop
  into three parts: 1) search for braille console, 2) check for
  preferred_console, 3) match other entries so that these three parts do not
  intersect.
- introduce for_each_console_cmdline() macros to traverse console_cmdline
  (Petr Mladek)

 kernel/printk/printk.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fd752f0c8ef1..88f86fb23bc4 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1895,6 +1895,34 @@ asmlinkage __visible void early_printk(const char *fmt, 
...)
 }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * This function maintains an invariant that will help to find if
+ * the matching console is preferred, see register_console():
+ *
+ *      The last non-braille console is always the preferred one.
+ */
+static void ensure_preferred_is_last(int i)
+{
+       int last;
+
+       for (last = MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES - 1;
+            last >= 0 && !console_cmdline[last].name[0];
+            last--)
+               ;
+
+       BUG_ON(last < 0);
+
+       if (i != last) {
+               struct console_cmdline t;
+
+               t = console_cmdline[i];
+               console_cmdline[i] = console_cmdline[last];
+               console_cmdline[last] = t;
+       }
+
+       preferred_console = last;
+}
+
 static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options,
                                   char *brl_options)
 {
@@ -1910,7 +1938,7 @@ static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, 
char *options,
             i++, c++) {
                if (strcmp(c->name, name) == 0 && c->index == idx) {
                        if (!brl_options)
-                               preferred_console = i;
+                               ensure_preferred_is_last(i);
                        return 0;
                }
        }
@@ -2457,12 +2485,20 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon)
        }
 
        /*
-        *      See if this console matches one we selected on
-        *      the command line.
+        * See if this console matches one we selected on the command line.
+        *
+        * The console_cmdline array is traversed in the reverse order because
+        * we want to be sure that if this console is preferred then it will be
+        * the first matching entry.  We use the invariant that is maintained in
+        * __add_preferred_console().
         */
-       for (i = 0, c = console_cmdline;
-            i < MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES && c->name[0];
-            i++, c++) {
+       for (i = MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+
+               if (!console_cmdline[i].name[0])
+                       continue;
+
+               c = console_cmdline + i;
+
                if (!newcon->match ||
                    newcon->match(newcon, c->name, c->index, c->options) != 0) {
                        /* default matching */
-- 
2.12.0

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