Re: [PATCH V2] mm: vmalloc: don't remove inexistent guard hole in remove_vm_area()

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Jerome Marchand wrote:

> Commit 71394fe50146 ("mm: vmalloc: add flag preventing guard hole
> allocation") missed a spot. Currently remove_vm_area() decreases
> vm->size to "remove" the guard hole page, even when it isn't present.
> All but one users just free the vm_struct rigth away and never access
> vm->size anyway.
> Don't touch the size in remove_vm_area() and have __vunmap() use the
> proper get_vm_area_size() helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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