mm: avoid returning VM_FAULT_RETRY from ->page_mkwrite handlers
Some ->page_mkwrite handlers may return VM_FAULT_RETRY as its return code (GFS2 or Lustre can definitely do this). However VM_FAULT_RETRY from ->page_mkwrite is completely unhandled by the mm code and results in locking and writeably mapping the page which definitely is not what the caller wanted. Fix Lustre and block_page_mkwrite_ret() used by other filesystems (notably GFS2) to return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE instead which results in bailing out from the fault code, the CPU then retries the access, and we fault again effectively doing what the handler wanted. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203150729.15863-1-jack@suse.czSigned-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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