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virt_addr_valid() is supposed to tell you if it's OK to call virt_to_page() on
an address. What this means in practice is that it should only return true for
addresses in the linear mapping which are backed by a valid PFN.
We are failing to properly check that the address is in the linear mapping,
because virt_to_pfn() will return a valid looking PFN for more or less any
address. That bug is actually caused by __pa(), used in virt_to_pfn().
eg: __pa(0xc000000000010000) = 0x10000 # Good
__pa(0xd000000000010000) = 0x10000 # Bad!
__pa(0x0000000000010000) = 0x10000 # Bad!
This started happening after commit
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