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linux/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
Luiz Capitulino ebfc049ce8 virtio_balloon: leak_balloon(): only tell host if we got pages deflated
commit 8c6bab4f38 upstream.

balloon_page_dequeue() can return NULL.  If it does for the first page
being freed then leak_balloon() will create a scatter list with len=0.
Which in turn seems to generate an invalid virtio request.

I didn't get this in practice, I found it by code review.  On the other
hand, such an invalid virtio request will cause errors in QEMU and
fill_balloon() also performs the same check implemented by this commit.

This bug was introduced in e2250429.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-25 14:07:31 -07:00

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