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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:40:24 -0700
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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Subject: USB: add free_len=0 initialization to ipaq.c
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This is what happens when driver writers neglect memset after kmalloc.
Patch by Ganesh Varadaraja.

diff -urp -X dontdiff linux-2.4.27-rc3/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c linux-2.4.27-rc3-usbx/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c
--- linux-2.4.27-rc3/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c	2003-11-29 18:53:05.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.4.27-rc3-usbx/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c	2004-07-27 10:30:49.000000000 -0700
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ static int ipaq_open(struct usb_serial_p
 	port->private = (void *)priv;
 	priv->active = 0;
 	priv->queue_len = 0;
+	priv->free_len = 0;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->queue);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->freelist);