Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/7] Intel pci: Check for identity mappingcandidate using system dma mask

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri May 27 2011 - 03:19:16 EST


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:32:22PM -0500, Mike Travis wrote:
> The identity mapping code appears to make the assumption that
> if the devices dma_mask is greater than 32bits the device can
> use identity mapping. But that is not true, take the case
> where we have a 40bit device in a 44bit architecture. The
> device can potentially receive a physical address that it
> will truncate and cause incorrect addresses to be used.
>
> Instead check to see if the device's dma_mask is large enough
> to address the system's dma_mask.
>
> From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

I'll not send this out for the other 6 patches that also do not follow
the proper format, as I'm sure you would get bored reading them.

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