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virtio-balloon: Fix memory leak when unloading while hinting is in progress 

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: 86a559787e ("virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT")
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200205163402.42627-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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David Hildenbrand 2020-02-05 17:34:00 +01:00 committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
parent 6e9826e772
commit 6c22dc61c7
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drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
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@ -970,6 +970,10 @@ 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);