diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 0221f85..b899681 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #define VM_UNINITIALIZED	0x00000020	/* vm_struct is not fully initialized */
 #define VM_NO_GUARD		0x00000040      /* don't add guard page */
 #define VM_KASAN		0x00000080      /* has allocated kasan shadow memory */
+#define VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES	0x00000100	/* put pages and free array in vfree */
 
 /*
  * VM_KASAN is used slighly differently depending on CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC.
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 74af03a..63b19a5 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2377,8 +2377,11 @@
  * @flags: vm_area->flags
  * @prot: page protection for the mapping
  *
- * Maps @count pages from @pages into contiguous kernel virtual
- * space.
+ * Maps @count pages from @pages into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ * If @flags contains %VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES the ownership of the pages array itself
+ * (which must be kmalloc or vmalloc memory) and one reference per pages in it
+ * are transferred from the caller to vmap(), and will be freed / dropped when
+ * vfree() is called on the return value.
  *
  * Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure
  */
@@ -2404,6 +2407,8 @@
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
+	if (flags & VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES)
+		area->pages = pages;
 	return area->addr;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmap);