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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 30991f83d0bf..8132787ae4d5 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1591,10 +1591,15 @@ int vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
* than insert_pfn). If a zero_pfn were inserted into a VM_MIXEDMAP
* without pte special, it would there be refcounted as a normal page.
*/
- if (!HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL && pfn_t_valid(pfn)) {
+ if (!HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL && !pfn_t_devmap(pfn) && pfn_t_valid(pfn)) {
struct page *page;
- page = pfn_t_to_page(pfn);
+ /*
+ * At this point we are committed to insert_page()
+ * regardless of whether the caller specified flags that
+ * result in pfn_t_has_page() == false.
+ */
+ page = pfn_to_page(pfn_t_to_pfn(pfn));
return insert_page(vma, addr, page, vma->vm_page_prot);
}
return insert_pfn(vma, addr, pfn, vma->vm_page_prot);
@@ -2232,11 +2237,6 @@ static int wp_page_shared(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
page_cache_get(old_page);
- /*
- * Only catch write-faults on shared writable pages,
- * read-only shared pages can get COWed by
- * get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1).
- */
if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) {
int tmp;
@@ -3404,8 +3404,18 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (unlikely(pmd_none(*pmd)) &&
unlikely(__pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, address)))
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
- /* if an huge pmd materialized from under us just retry later */
- if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)))
+ /*
+ * If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later. Use
+ * pmd_trans_unstable() instead of pmd_trans_huge() to ensure the pmd
+ * didn't become pmd_trans_huge under us and then back to pmd_none, as
+ * a result of MADV_DONTNEED running immediately after a huge pmd fault
+ * in a different thread of this mm, in turn leading to a misleading
+ * pmd_trans_huge() retval. All we have to ensure is that it is a
+ * regular pmd that we can walk with pte_offset_map() and we can do that
+ * through an atomic read in C, which is what pmd_trans_unstable()
+ * provides.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(pmd_trans_unstable(pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)))
return 0;
/*
* A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge pmd