* Try to allocate a range, marking pages fake-offline, effectively
  * fake-offlining them.
  */
-static int virtio_mem_fake_offline(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
+static int virtio_mem_fake_offline(struct virtio_mem *vm, unsigned long pfn,
+                                  unsigned long nr_pages)
 {
        const bool is_movable = is_zone_movable_page(pfn_to_page(pfn));
        int rc, retry_count;
         * some guarantees.
         */
        for (retry_count = 0; retry_count < 5; retry_count++) {
+               /*
+                * If the config changed, stop immediately and go back to the
+                * main loop: avoid trying to keep unplugging if the device
+                * might have decided to not remove any more memory.
+                */
+               if (atomic_read(&vm->config_changed))
+                       return -EAGAIN;
+
                rc = alloc_contig_range(pfn, pfn + nr_pages, MIGRATE_MOVABLE,
                                        GFP_KERNEL);
                if (rc == -ENOMEM)
        start_pfn = PFN_DOWN(virtio_mem_mb_id_to_phys(mb_id) +
                             sb_id * vm->sbm.sb_size);
 
-       rc = virtio_mem_fake_offline(start_pfn, nr_pages);
+       rc = virtio_mem_fake_offline(vm, start_pfn, nr_pages);
        if (rc)
                return rc;
 
                if (!page)
                        continue;
 
-               rc = virtio_mem_fake_offline(pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
+               rc = virtio_mem_fake_offline(vm, pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
                if (rc) {
                        end_pfn = pfn;
                        goto rollback;