linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 056/254] drm/nouveau/bios: memset dcb struct to zero before parsing

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:36:46 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 056/254] drm/nouveau/bios: memset dcb struct to zero before parsing

3.16.7-ckt2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>

commit 595d373f1e9c9ce0fc946457fdb488e8a58972cd upstream.

Fixes type/mask calculation being based on uninitialised data for VGA
outputs.

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Cc: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/dcb.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/dcb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/dcb.c
index 88606bfaf847..bd8d348385b3 100644
--- 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, u8 idx, u8 *ver, u8 *len,
 	       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);
-- 
2.1.0

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