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Fix a potential race in gmap_make_secure() and remove the last user of
follow_page() without FOLL_GET.
The old code is locking something it doesn't have a reference to, and
as explained by Jason and David in this discussion:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Y9J4P%2FRNvY1Ztn0Q@nvidia.com/
it can lead to all kind of bad things, including the page getting
unmapped (MADV_DONTNEED), freed, reallocated as a larger folio and the
unlock_page() would target the wrong bit.
There is also another race with the FOLL_WRITE, which could race
between the follow_page() and the get_locked_pte().
The main point is to remove the last use of follow_page() without
FOLL_GET or FOLL_PIN, removing the races can be considered a nice
bonus.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Y9J4P%2FRNvY1Ztn0Q@nvidia.com/
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Fixes: 214d9bbcd3 ("s390/mm: provide memory management functions for protected KVM guests")
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20230428092753.27913-2-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
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