This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    i2c: ismt: initialize DMA buffer

to the 3.11-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-ismt-initialize-dma-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From bf4169100c909667ede6af67668b3ecce6928343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ralston <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:47:55 -0700
Subject: i2c: ismt: initialize DMA buffer

From: James Ralston <[email protected]>

commit bf4169100c909667ede6af67668b3ecce6928343 upstream.

This patch adds code to initialize the DMA buffer to compensate for
possible hardware data corruption.

Signed-off-by: James Ralston <[email protected]>
[wsa: changed to use 'sizeof']
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@ static int ismt_access(struct i2c_adapte
 
        desc = &priv->hw[priv->head];
 
+       /* Initialize the DMA buffer */
+       memset(priv->dma_buffer, 0, sizeof(priv->dma_buffer));
+
        /* Initialize the descriptor */
        memset(desc, 0, sizeof(struct ismt_desc));
        desc->tgtaddr_rw = ISMT_DESC_ADDR_RW(addr, read_write);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.11/i2c-ismt-initialize-dma-buffer.patch
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