linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: two additional corner cases in balloon

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Message-ID: <5515D8EE.8050203@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:25:50 +0100
From:	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>
To:	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
CC:	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: two additional corner cases
 in balloon_up()

On 03/27/15 17:02, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> PATCH 1/2 addresses  a real issue introduced by the 'Drivers: hv: hv_balloon:
> refuse to balloon below the floor' fix,
> 
> PATCH 2/2 addresses a currently impossible issue (as Hyper-V host never asks
> to balloon more than INT_MAX pages) and is rather a cleanup. The patch is
> supposed to be applied on top of previously sent 'Drivers: hv: hv_balloon:
> survive ballooning request with num_pages=0'.
> 
> Both issues were found by Laszlo Ersek during code review.
> 
> Vitaly Kuznetsov (2):
>   Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle val.freeram<num_pages case
>   Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle num_pages>INT_MAX case
> 
>  drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 15 ++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

series
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>

Thanks, Vitaly!
Laszlo
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