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Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:32:11 -0700
From:	"Ira W. Snyder" <iws@...o.caltech.edu>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kfifo: fix DMA sample driver

The kfifo DMA sample driver is broken. It does not properly initialize
the scatterlist, and therefore causes a kernel BUG with
CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y.

Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@...o.caltech.edu>
---
 samples/kfifo/dma-example.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c b/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c
index b9482c2..baa5060 100644
--- a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c
+++ b/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ static int __init example_init(void)
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "queue len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&fifo));
 
+	/* initialize scatterlist */
+	sg_init_table(sg, ARRAY_SIZE(sg));
+
 	ret = kfifo_dma_in_prepare(&fifo, sg, ARRAY_SIZE(sg), FIFO_SIZE);
 	printk(KERN_INFO "DMA sgl entries: %d\n", ret);
 
-- 
1.7.1

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