Re: [PATCH] vfio/pci: Fix sparse warning in vfio_pci_core_get_iomap()

From: Alex Williamson

Date: Fri May 22 2026 - 18:40:25 EST


On Fri, 22 May 2026 05:42:11 -0700
Matt Evans <mattev@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use IOMEM_ERR_PTR() when returning a void __iomem * rather than
> ERR_PTR(). This fixes a sparse warning, "different address spaces".
>
> Fixes: 859dc0f6253b ("vfio/pci: Replace vfio_pci_core_setup_barmap() with vfio_pci_core_get_iomap()")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202605211601.U1OvmuqY-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <mattev@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h b/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h
> index 7accd0eac457..4fa129fc5c64 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h
> @@ -244,10 +244,10 @@ static inline void __iomem __must_check *
> vfio_pci_core_get_iomap(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev, unsigned int bar)
> {
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(bar >= PCI_STD_NUM_BARS))
> - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> + return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!vdev->barmap[bar]))
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> + return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>
> return vdev->barmap[bar];
> }

Applied to vfio next branch for v7.2. Thanks,

Alex