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mm: prevent do_swap_page from handling page faults under VMA lock

Due to the possibility of do_swap_page dropping mmap_lock, abort fault
handling under VMA lock and retry holding mmap_lock. This can be handled
more gracefully in the future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-27-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Suren Baghdasaryan and committed by
Andrew Morton
17c05f18 55324e46

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mm/memory.c
··· 3697 3697 if (!pte_unmap_same(vmf)) 3698 3698 goto out; 3699 3699 3700 + if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) { 3701 + ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY; 3702 + goto out; 3703 + } 3704 + 3700 3705 entry = pte_to_swp_entry(vmf->orig_pte); 3701 3706 if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry))) { 3702 3707 if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {