This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/nouveau/bios: memset dcb struct to zero before parsing
to the 3.17-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-nouveau-bios-memset-dcb-struct-to-zero-before-parsing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 595d373f1e9c9ce0fc946457fdb488e8a58972cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 10:33:32 +1000
Subject: drm/nouveau/bios: memset dcb struct to zero before parsing
From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 595d373f1e9c9ce0fc946457fdb488e8a58972cd upstream.
Fixes type/mask calculation being based on uninitialised data for VGA
outputs.
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/dcb.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/dcb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/dcb.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ dcb_outp_parse(struct nouveau_bios *bios
struct dcb_output *outp)
{
u16 dcb = dcb_outp(bios, idx, ver, len);
+ memset(outp, 0x00, sizeof(*outp));
if (dcb) {
if (*ver >= 0x20) {
u32 conn = nv_ro32(bios, dcb + 0x00);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/drm-nouveau-gpio-rename-g92-class-to-g94.patch
queue-3.17/drm-gt214-kms-fix-hda-eld-regression.patch
queue-3.17/drm-nouveau-bios-memset-dcb-struct-to-zero-before-parsing.patch
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