CVE-2023-54220

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This happens on uart_hangup() calling\nuart_change_pm().\n\nTurns out commit 04e82793f068 (\"serial: 8250: Reinit port->pm on port\nspecific driver unbind\") was only a partial fix. If the hardware specific\ndriver has initialized port->pm function, we need to clear port->pm too.\nJust reinitializing port->ops does not do this. 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