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Patch "KVM: pci-assign: do not map smm memory slot pages in vt-d page tables" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

KVM: pci-assign: do not map smm memory slot pages in vt-d page tables

to the 4.9-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:
kvm-pci-assign-do-not-map-smm-memory-slot-pages-in-vt-d-page-tables.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

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From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 09:02:40 CET 2017

From: "Herongguang (Stephen)" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:21:17 +0800
Subject: KVM: pci-assign: do not map smm memory slot pages in vt-d page tables

From: "Herongguang (Stephen)" <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 0292e169b2d9c8377a168778f0b16eadb1f578fd ]

or VM memory are not put thus leaked in kvm_iommu_unmap_memslots() when destroy VM.

This is consistent with current vfio implementation.

---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +1 -1
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *
 	 * changes) is disallowed above, so any other attribute changes getting
 	 * here can be skipped.
 	 */
-	if ((change == KVM_MR_CREATE) || (change == KVM_MR_MOVE)) {
+	if (as_id == 0 && (change == KVM_MR_CREATE || change == KVM_MR_MOVE)) {
 		r = kvm_iommu_map_pages(kvm, &new);
 		return r;
 	}

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

queue-4.9/kvm-pci-assign-do-not-map-smm-memory-slot-pages-in-vt-d-page-tables.patch