Embarrassingly, the recent fix introduced worse problem than it solved,
causing the balloon not to inflate. The VM informed the hypervisor that
the pages for lock/unlock are sitting in the wrong address, as it used
the page that is used the uninitialized page variable.
Fixes: b23220fe054e9 ("vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
unsigned int num_pages, bool is_2m_pages, unsigned int *target)
{
unsigned long status;
- unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(b->page);
+ unsigned long pfn = PHYS_PFN(virt_to_phys(b->batch_page));
STATS_INC(b->stats.lock[is_2m_pages]);
unsigned int num_pages, bool is_2m_pages, unsigned int *target)
{
unsigned long status;
- unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(b->page);
+ unsigned long pfn = PHYS_PFN(virt_to_phys(b->batch_page));
STATS_INC(b->stats.unlock[is_2m_pages]);