This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i2c: rcar: bail out on zero length transfers to the 3.14-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: i2c-rcar-bail-out-on-zero-length-transfers.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d7653964c590ba846aa11a8f6edf409773cbc492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 18:36:21 +0200 Subject: i2c: rcar: bail out on zero length transfers From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d7653964c590ba846aa11a8f6edf409773cbc492 upstream. This hardware does not support zero length transfers. Instead, the driver does one (random) byte transfers currently with undefined results for the slaves. We now bail out. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c @@ -561,6 +561,12 @@ static int rcar_i2c_master_xfer(struct i ret = -EINVAL; for (i = 0; i < num; i++) { + /* This HW can't send STOP after address phase */ + if (msgs[i].len == 0) { + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; + break; + } + /*-------------- spin lock -----------------*/ spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); @@ -625,7 +631,8 @@ static int rcar_i2c_master_xfer(struct i static u32 rcar_i2c_func(struct i2c_adapter *adap) { - return I2C_FUNC_I2C | I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_EMUL; + /* This HW can't do SMBUS_QUICK and NOSTART */ + return I2C_FUNC_I2C | (I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_EMUL & ~I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK); } static const struct i2c_algorithm rcar_i2c_algo = { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/i2c-rcar-bail-out-on-zero-length-transfers.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html