Patch "usb: host: xhci-mem: allocate zeroed Scratchpad Buffer" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "usb: host: xhci-mem: allocate zeroed Scratchpad Buffer" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    usb: host: xhci-mem: allocate zeroed Scratchpad Buffer

to the 3.18-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:
     usb-host-xhci-mem-allocate-zeroed-scratchpad-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7480d912d549f414e0ce39331870899e89a5598c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 18:32:01 +0300
Subject: usb: host: xhci-mem: allocate zeroed Scratchpad Buffer

From: Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>

commit 7480d912d549f414e0ce39331870899e89a5598c upstream.

According to xHCI ch4.20 Scratchpad Buffers, the Scratchpad
Buffer needs to be zeroed.

	...
	The following operations take place to allocate
       	Scratchpad Buffers to the xHC:
	...
		b. Software clears the Scratchpad Buffer to '0'

Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
@@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ static int scratchpad_alloc(struct xhci_
 	xhci->dcbaa->dev_context_ptrs[0] = cpu_to_le64(xhci->scratchpad->sp_dma);
 	for (i = 0; i < num_sp; i++) {
 		dma_addr_t dma;
-		void *buf = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, xhci->page_size, &dma,
+		void *buf = dma_zalloc_coherent(dev, xhci->page_size, &dma,
 				flags);
 		if (!buf)
 			goto fail_sp5;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peter.chen@nxp.com are

queue-3.18/usb-host-xhci-mem-allocate-zeroed-scratchpad-buffer.patch