Re: [PATCH] mm/kasan: Don't vfree() nonexistent vm_area.

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:33:49PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> +	case MEM_OFFLINE: {
> +		struct vm_struct *vm;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Only hot-added memory have vm_area. Freeing shadow
> +		 * mapped during boot would be tricky, so we'll just
> +		 * have to keep it.
> +		 */
> +		vm = find_vm_area((void *)shadow_start);
> +		if (vm)
> +			vfree((void *)shadow_start);
> +	}

This looks like a complicated way to spell 'is_vmalloc_addr' ...