linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: vmalloc: Pass proper vm

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Date:   Tue, 1 May 2018 10:54:34 +0530
From:   Chintan Pandya <cpandya@...eaurora.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     vbabka@...e.cz, labbott@...hat.com, catalin.marinas@....com,
        hannes@...xchg.org, f.fainelli@...il.com, xieyisheng1@...wei.com,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, richard.weiyang@...il.com,
        byungchul.park@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        mhocko@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: vmalloc: Pass proper vm_start into
 debugobjects



On 5/1/2018 4:34 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> should check for it and do a WARN_ONCE so it gets fixed.

Yes, that was an idea in discussion but I've been suggested that it
could be intentional. But since you are raising this, I will try to dig
once again and share a patch with WARN_ONCE if passing intermediate
'addr' is absolutely not right thing to do.

Chintan
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