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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Memory corruption in powerpc guests with virtio_balloon (was Re: [PATCH v3] virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM)
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:04:40 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgikw2iv.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171201164129-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:31:08PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > fill_balloon doing memory allocations under balloon_lock
>> > can cause a deadlock when leak_balloon is called from
>> > virtballoon_oom_notify and tries to take same lock.
...
>> 
>> 
>> Somehow this commit seems to be killing powerpc guests.
...
>
> Thanks for the report!
> A fix was just posted:
> virtio_balloon: fix increment of vb->num_pfns in fill_balloon()
>
> Would appreciate testing.

Yep that fixes it. Thanks.

Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

cheers

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-03 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-08 15:17 [PATCH v3] virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-01 12:31 ` Memory corruption in powerpc guests with virtio_balloon (was Re: [PATCH v3] virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM) Michael Ellerman
2017-12-01 14:42   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-03 10:04     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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