# CVE-2026-98883: serial: 8250\_port: recognize UPIO\_AU

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108677
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.18.53
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-26

## Summary

The Linux kernel's 8250 serial UART driver, used on MIPS Alchemy systems such as the Au1300, is affected. A missing case for the UPIO_AU port type caused a spurious kernel warning during driver probe, though the fix is a minor handling correction with no clear security impact described.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Linux: from 7c7e6c8924e7bf98db4e5b2edb202842003c00c2, fixed in 9f67997353caa29c6a080789a1fb6e01fb50c118; from 7c7e6c8924e7bf98db4e5b2edb202842003c00c2, fixed in 49fa670efdfdd27e29145cbd2beef065c08717ef
- Linux: 6.13
- Kernel (Linux): fixed in 6.18.53

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_port: recognize UPIO_AU My MIPS Alchemy systems generate the following warning during probe of the 8250 driver: WARNING: drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:462 at set_io_from_upio+0xfc/0x124, CPU#0: swapper/0/1 Unsupported UART type 4 [...] [<80521d40>] set_io_from_upio+0xfc/0x124 [<80521dfc>] serial8250_set_defaults+0x94/0xe0 [<80520fb4>] serial8250_register_8250_port+0x288/0x51c [<805214ec>] serial8250_probe+0x160/0x1e8 [<8053b5f0>] platform_probe+0x64/0x90 The least invasive fix is to recognize UPIO_AU (type 4) in set_io_from_upio() and do nothing, since all parameters have already been set up in 8250_rt288x.c::au_platform_setup(). Run-tested on Alchemy Au1300 platform.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f67997353caa29c6a080789a1fb6e01fb50c118
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49fa670efdfdd27e29145cbd2beef065c08717ef

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