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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 04/13] vfio/mdev: remove the usage of the list iterator after the loop
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Jakob Koschel wrote:
> It is unsafe to assume that tmp != mdev can only evaluate to false
> if the break within the list iterator is hit.
>
> When the break is not hit, tmp is set to an address derived from the
> head element. If mdev would match with that value of tmp it would allow
> continuing beyond the safety check even if mdev was never found within
> the list

I think due to other construction this is not actually possible, but I
guess it is technically correct

This seems like just a straight up style fix with nothing to do with
speculative execution though. Why not just send it as a proper patch?

Jason

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