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Title:
  [Bionic] bug fixes to improve stability of the ThunderX2 i2c driver

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  With ThunderX2 i2c driver, ipmi transfers may get stuck or stack corruption 
might occur.

  [Test]
  Generate data with ipmitool:
  for i in {1..100}; do sudo ipmitool sensor list; done
  for i in {1..100}; do sudo ipmitool mc info; done

  [Fix]
  88b4116e7e98 i2c: xlp9xx: Make sure the transfer size is not more than 
I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_SIZE
  8d504d804ab6 i2c: xlp9xx: Fix issue seen when updating receive length

  
  [Regression Potential]
  The driver is limited to ThunderX2 hardware, and bug fixes to this driver 
does not have any impact on other platforms. There for risk for regression is 
low.

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