[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Clean the request structure on alloc

[John Harrison]

This is already part of the seqno/request patch series and has been 
right from the start. See email 'drm/i915: Zero fill the request structure'.

On 05/12/2014 17:54, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> Otherwise we might end up referencing uninitialized fields.
> This is apparent when we try to cleanup the preallocated request
> on ring reset, before any request has been submitted to the ring.
> The request->ctx is foobar and we end up freeing the foobarness.
>
> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86959
> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86962
> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86992
> Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> index 79b4ca5..2c6c6f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> @@ -2030,7 +2030,7 @@ intel_ring_alloc_request(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
>   	if (ring->outstanding_lazy_request)
>   		return 0;
>   
> -	request = kmalloc(sizeof(*request), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	request = kzalloc(sizeof(*request), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (request == NULL)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>