linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle val.freeram<num

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Message-Id: <1427825801-6588-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:16:40 -0700
From:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, olaf@...fle.de, apw@...onical.com,
	vkuznets@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle val.freeram<num_pages case

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>

'Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: refuse to balloon below the floor' fix does not
correctly handle the case when val.freeram < num_pages as val.freeram is
__kernel_ulong_t and the 'val.freeram - num_pages' value will be a huge
positive value instead of being negative.

Usually host doesn't ask us to balloon more than val.freeram but in case
he have a memory hog started after we post the last pressure report we
can get into troubles.

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index 74312c8..4052ad8 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ static void balloon_up(struct work_struct *dummy)
 	floor = compute_balloon_floor();
 
 	/* Refuse to balloon below the floor, keep the 2M granularity. */
-	if (val.freeram - num_pages < floor) {
+	if (val.freeram < num_pages || val.freeram - num_pages < floor) {
 		num_pages = val.freeram > floor ? (val.freeram - floor) : 0;
 		num_pages -= num_pages % PAGES_IN_2M;
 	}
-- 
1.7.4.1

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