virtio_balloon: fix towards_target when deflating balloon

Both v and vb->num_pages are u32 and unsigned int respectively. If v is less
than vb->num_pages (and it is, when deflating the balloon), the result is a
very large 32-bit number. Since we're returning a s64, instead of getting the
same negative number we desire, we get a very large positive number.

This handles the case where v < vb->num_pages and ensures we get a small,
negative, s64 as the result.

Rusty: please push this for 2.6.27-rc4. It's probably appropriate for the
stable tree too as it will cause an unexpected OOM when ballooning.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (simplified)

authored by Anthony Liguori and committed by Rusty Russell 532a6086 83097aca

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drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
··· 158 158 vb->vdev->config->get(vb->vdev, 159 159 offsetof(struct virtio_balloon_config, num_pages), 160 160 &v, sizeof(v)); 161 - return v - vb->num_pages; 161 + return (s64)v - vb->num_pages; 162 162 } 163 163 164 164 static void update_balloon_size(struct virtio_balloon *vb)