When unloading the driver while hinting is in progress, we will not
release the free page blocks back to MM, resulting in a memory leak.
Fixes: 86a559787e6f ("virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT")
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Liang Li <liang.z.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 8e400ece9273..abef2306c899 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -968,6 +968,10 @@ static void remove_common(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
leak_balloon(vb, vb->num_pages);
update_balloon_size(vb);
+ /* There might be free pages that are being reported: release them. */
+ if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT))
+ return_free_pages_to_mm(vb, ULONG_MAX);
+
/* Now we reset the device so we can clean up the queues. */
vb->vdev->config->reset(vb->vdev);
--
2.24.1
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