From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
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[ Upstream commit 88660f7fb94cda1f8f63ee92bfcd0db39a6361e2 ]
virtio spec requires that all drivers set DRIVER_OK
before using devices. While balloon isn't yet
included in the virtio 1 spec, previous spec versions
also required this.
virtio balloon might violate this rule: probe calls
kthread_run before setting DRIVER_OK, which might run
immediately and cause balloon to inflate/deflate.
To fix, call virtio_device_ready before running the kthread.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index c9703d4..cd56c64 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -443,6 +443,8 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (err)
goto out_free_vb;
+ virtio_device_ready(vdev);
+
vb->thread = kthread_run(balloon, vb, "vballoon");
if (IS_ERR(vb->thread)) {
err = PTR_ERR(vb->thread);
--
2.1.0
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