From: Jan Beulich Subject: memory: don't implicitly unpin for decrease-reservation It very likely was a mistake (copy-and-paste from domain cleanup code) to implicitly unpin here: The caller should really unpin itself before (or after, if they so wish) requesting the page to be removed. This is XSA-252. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper --- a/xen/common/memory.c +++ b/xen/common/memory.c @@ -357,11 +357,6 @@ int guest_remove_page(struct domain *d, rc = guest_physmap_remove_page(d, _gfn(gmfn), mfn, 0); -#ifdef _PGT_pinned - if ( !rc && test_and_clear_bit(_PGT_pinned, &page->u.inuse.type_info) ) - put_page_and_type(page); -#endif - /* * With the lack of an IOMMU on some platforms, domains with DMA-capable * device must retrieve the same pfn when the hypercall populate_physmap