Re: [PATCH 3/3] VFIO V4: VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers

[Tom Lyon]

On Thursday, September 23, 2010 05:58:01 am Andy Walls wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> pci_iomap() can possibly return NULL here and also in
> vfio_mem_readwrite().  Even if there are no security implications
> (unintended access to low I/O ports?), I think you still have potential
> for an Oops in the code below.
> 
> ... unless there's a reason why pci_iomap() can't possibly return NULL
> in these instances.  Maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> Regards,
> Andy

Thanks for the catch.
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