During my compaction-related stuff, I encountered a bug with ballooning. With repeated inflating and deflating cycle, guest memory( ie, cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal) is decreased and couldn't be recovered. The reason is balloon_lock doesn't cover release_pages_balloon so struct virtio_balloon fields could be overwritten by race of fill_balloon(e,g, vb->*pfns could be critical). This patch fixes it in my test. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c index 7efc32945810..7d3e5d0e9aa4 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ static unsigned leak_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num) */ if (vb->num_pfns != 0) tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq); - mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock); release_pages_balloon(vb); + mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock); return num_freed_pages; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>