This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: Prevent zero length "index" write 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: drm-i915-prevent-zero-length-index-write.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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 56350fb8978bbf4aafe08f21234e161dd128b417 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4?= <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:41:57 +0200 Subject: drm/i915: Prevent zero length "index" write MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 56350fb8978bbf4aafe08f21234e161dd128b417 upstream. The hardware always writes one or two bytes in the index portion of an indexed transfer. Make sure the message we send as the index doesn't have a zero length. Cc: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 56f9eac05489 ("drm/i915/intel_i2c: use INDEX cycles for i2c read transactions") Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171123194157.25367-3-ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit bb9e0d4bca50f429152e74a459160b41f3d60fb2) Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c @@ -395,7 +395,8 @@ gmbus_is_index_read(struct i2c_msg *msgs { return (i + 1 < num && msgs[i].addr == msgs[i + 1].addr && - !(msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RD) && msgs[i].len <= 2 && + !(msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RD) && + (msgs[i].len == 1 || msgs[i].len == 2) && (msgs[i + 1].flags & I2C_M_RD)); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/drm-i915-prevent-zero-length-index-write.patch queue-3.18/drm-i915-don-t-try-indexed-reads-to-alternate-slave-addresses.patch