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On 21/02/18 14:01, Igor Stoppa wrote:

> it seems to return garbage also without this patch, but I need to clean
> up the code, try it again and possibly come up with a demo patch for
> triggering the problem.
> 
> I'll investigate it more. However it doesn't seem to be related to the
> functionality I need. So I plan to treat it as separate issue and leave
> find_vm_area untouched, at least in pmalloc scope.


Follow-up:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/22/427

--
igor