If num_pages is negative, balloon will make kernel crash with
"out of memory". So we check this value to avoid it to be negative.
Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <walimisdev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/kvm/virtio/balloon.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/kvm/virtio/balloon.c b/tools/kvm/virtio/balloon.c
index 854d04b..0223ee4 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/virtio/balloon.c
+++ b/tools/kvm/virtio/balloon.c
@@ -222,8 +222,13 @@ static void handle_sigmem(int sig)
{
if (sig == SIGKVMADDMEM)
bdev.config.num_pages += 256;
- else
+ else {
bdev.config.num_pages -= 256;
+ if ((s32)bdev.config.num_pages < 0){
+ bdev.config.num_pages = 0;
+ return;
+ }
+ }
/* Notify that the configuration space has changed */
bdev.isr = VIRTIO_PCI_ISR_CONFIG;
--
1.7.0.4
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