mlock: operate on any regions with protection != PROT_NONE
As Tao Ma noticed, change 5ecfda0 breaks blktrace. This is because
blktrace mmaps a file with PROT_WRITE permissions but without PROT_READ,
so my attempt to not unnecessarity break COW during mlock ended up
causing mlock to fail with a permission problem.
I am proposing to let mlock ignore vma protection in all cases except
PROT_NONE. In particular, mlock should not fail for PROT_WRITE regions
(as in the blktrace case, which broke at 5ecfda0) or for PROT_EXEC
regions (which seem to me like they were always broken).
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 13e81ee..c3924c7f 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -178,6 +178,13 @@
if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE)
gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+ /*
+ * We want mlock to succeed for regions that have any permissions
+ * other than PROT_NONE.
+ */
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC))
+ gup_flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
+
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
gup_flags |= FOLL_MLOCK;