The patch spi: Fix zero length xfer bug has been applied to the spi tree at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi.git All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted. You may get further e-mails resulting from automated or manual testing and review of the tree, please engage with people reporting problems and send followup patches addressing any issues that are reported if needed. If any updates are required or you are submitting further changes they should be sent as incremental updates against current git, existing patches will not be replaced. Please add any relevant lists and maintainers to the CCs when replying to this mail. Thanks, Mark >From 5442dcaa0d90fc376bdfc179a018931a8f43dea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Lesiak <chris.lesiak@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 20:39:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] spi: Fix zero length xfer bug This fixes a bug for messages containing both zero length and unidirectional xfers. The function spi_map_msg will allocate dummy tx and/or rx buffers for use with unidirectional transfers when the hardware can only do a bidirectional transfer. That dummy buffer will be used in place of a NULL buffer even when the xfer length is 0. Then in the function __spi_map_msg, if he hardware can dma, the zero length xfer will have spi_map_buf called on the dummy buffer. Eventually, __sg_alloc_table is called and returns -EINVAL because nents == 0. This fix prevents the error by not using the dummy buffer when the xfer length is zero. Signed-off-by: Chris Lesiak <chris.lesiak@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c index 93986f879b09..2be394d3bc59 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -1039,6 +1039,8 @@ static int spi_map_msg(struct spi_controller *ctlr, struct spi_message *msg) if (max_tx || max_rx) { list_for_each_entry(xfer, &msg->transfers, transfer_list) { + if (!xfer->len) + continue; if (!xfer->tx_buf) xfer->tx_buf = ctlr->dummy_tx; if (!xfer->rx_buf) -- 2.20.1