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' Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c index 032a702..580c890 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c @@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ static int scratchpad_alloc(struct xhci_hcd *xhci, gfp_t flags) 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; -- 2.7.4