[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/nouveau/bios: memset dcb struct to zero before parsing" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/nouveau/bios: memset dcb struct to zero before parsing

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e11323e2394918128ef481a8961e6ff4f281947b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 10:33:32 +1000
Subject: drm/nouveau/bios: memset dcb struct to zero before parsing

commit 595d373f1e9c9ce0fc946457fdb488e8a58972cd upstream.

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

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
Cc: Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.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