This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    intel-iommu: Fix use after release during device attach

to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     intel-iommu-fix-use-after-release-during-device-attach.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 7a6610139a1e1d9297dd1c5d178022eac36839cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:05:51 +0100
Subject: intel-iommu: Fix use after release during device attach

From: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>

commit 7a6610139a1e1d9297dd1c5d178022eac36839cb upstream.

Obtain the new pgd pointer before releasing the page containing this
value.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sheng Yang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
@@ -3627,9 +3627,9 @@ static int intel_iommu_attach_device(str
 
                pte = dmar_domain->pgd;
                if (dma_pte_present(pte)) {
-                       free_pgtable_page(dmar_domain->pgd);
                        dmar_domain->pgd = (struct dma_pte *)
                                phys_to_virt(dma_pte_addr(pte));
+                       free_pgtable_page(pte);
                }
                dmar_domain->agaw--;
        }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-2.6.38/intel-iommu-fix-use-after-release-during-device-attach.patch

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