mm, dax: VMA with vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite wants to be write-notified

For VM_PFNMAP and VM_MIXEDMAP we use vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite instead of
vm_ops->page_mkwrite to notify abort write access.  This means we want
vma->vm_page_prot to be write-protected if the VMA provides this vm_ops.

A theoretical scenario that will cause these missed events is:

  On writable mapping with vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite, but without
  vm_ops->page_mkwrite: read fault followed by write access to the pfn.
  Writable pte will be set up on read fault and write fault will not be
  generated.

I found it examining Dave's complaint on generic/080:

	http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150831233803.GO3902@dastard

Although I don't think it's the reason.

It shouldn't be a problem for ext2/ext4 as they provide both pfn_mkwrite
and page_mkwrite.

[[email protected]: add local vm_ops to avoid 80-cols mess]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Yigal Korman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored and Linus Torvalds committed 2015-09-22 15:09:53 -07:00
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@@ -1490,13 +1490,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(old_mmap, struct mmap_arg_struct __user *, arg)
int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
vm_flags_t vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
const struct vm_operations_struct *vm_ops = vma->vm_ops;
/* If it was private or non-writable, the write bit is already clear */
if ((vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) != ((VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)))
return 0;
/* The backer wishes to know when pages are first written to? */
if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)
if (vm_ops && (vm_ops->page_mkwrite || vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite))
return 1;
/* The open routine did something to the protections that pgprot_modify