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Driver gets a request frame from the free pool of DMA-able request frames and fill in the required information and pass the address of the frame to IOC/FW to pull the complete request frame. In certain places the driver used the request frame allocated from the free pool without completely clearing the previous data stored in it. The request contents were cleared only for the size of the new request to be issued and that left out some stale data in the unused part of the request. Though the IOC/FW is not expected to access the request beyond the specified size, it is good practice to clear complete request message frame. So reinitialize the complete request message frame with 0s before using it. Signed-off-by: Suganath Prabu <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.