[PATCH] mlock-vs-VM_IO hang fix

With Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>

Fix a hang which occurs when mlock() encounters a mapping of /dev/mem.
These have VM_IO set.  follow_page() keeps returning zero (not a valid pfn)
and handle_mm_fault() keeps on returning VM_FAULT_MINOR (there's a pte
there), so get_user_pages() locks up.

The patch changes get_user_pages() to just bale out when it hits a VM_IO
region.  make_pages_present() is taught to ignore the resulting -EFAULT.

We still have two bugs:

a) If a process has a VM_IO vma, get_user_pages() will bale early,
   without having considered the vmas at higher virtual addresses.

   As do_mlock() also walks the vma list this bug is fairly benign, but
   get_user_pages() is doing the wrong thing there.

b) The `len' argument to get_user_pages should be long, not int.  We
   presently have a 16TB limit on 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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