Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com>
---
 hw/device-assignment.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/device-assignment.c b/hw/device-assignment.c
index 73d8afd..d8c565c 100644
--- a/hw/device-assignment.c
+++ b/hw/device-assignment.c
@@ -913,6 +913,12 @@ static int assign_device(AssignedDevice *dev)
 #else
     dev->features &= ~ASSIGNED_DEVICE_USE_IOMMU_MASK;
 #endif
+    if (!(dev->features & ASSIGNED_DEVICE_USE_IOMMU_MASK)) {
+        fprintf(stderr,
+                "WARNING: Assigning a device without IOMMU protection can "
+                "cause host memory corruption if the device issues DMA write "
+                "requests!\n");
+    }
 
     r = kvm_assign_pci_device(kvm_context, &assigned_dev_data);
     if (r < 0) {
-- 
1.7.1

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