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 <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Habeck <[email protected]>
> ---
>  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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