4.17-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com>

commit bce73e4842390f7b7309c8e253e139db71288ac3 upstream.

KVM guests on s390 can notify the host of unused pages.  This can result
in pte_unused callbacks to be true for KVM guest memory.

If a page is unused (checked with pte_unused) we might drop this page
instead of paging it.  This can have side-effects on userfaultd, when
the page in question was already migrated:

The next access of that page will trigger a fault and a user fault
instead of faulting in a new and empty zero page.  As QEMU does not
expect a userfault on an already migrated page this migration will fail.

The most straightforward solution is to ignore the pte_unused hint if a
userfault context is active for this VMA.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703171854.63981-1-borntrae...@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <r...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <fran...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/rmap.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/page_idle.h>
 #include <linux/memremap.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -1481,11 +1482,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page
                                set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
                        }
 
-               } else if (pte_unused(pteval)) {
+               } else if (pte_unused(pteval) && !userfaultfd_armed(vma)) {
                        /*
                         * The guest indicated that the page content is of no
                         * interest anymore. Simply discard the pte, vmscan
                         * will take care of the rest.
+                        * A future reference will then fault in a new zero
+                        * page. When userfaultfd is active, we must not drop
+                        * this page though, as its main user (postcopy
+                        * migration) will not expect userfaults on already
+                        * copied pages.
                         */
                        dec_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter(page));
                        /* We have to invalidate as we cleared the pte */


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