Fix ZERO_PAGE breakage with vmware
Commit 89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f ("Reinstate ZERO_PAGE
optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP") broke vmware, as
reported by Jeff Chua:
"This broke vmware 6.0.4.
Jun 22 14:53:03.845: vmx| NOT_IMPLEMENTED
/build/mts/release/bora-93057/bora/vmx/main/vmmonPosix.c:774"
and the reason seems to be that there's an old bug in how we handle do
FOLL_ANON on VM_SHARED areas in get_user_pages(), but since it only
triggered if the whole page table was missing, nobody had apparently hit
it before.
The recent changes to 'follow_page()' made the FOLL_ANON logic trigger
not just for whole missing page tables, but for individual pages as
well, and exposed this problem.
This fixes it by making the test for when FOLL_ANON is used more
careful, and also makes the code easier to read and understand by moving
the logic to a separate inline function.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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