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dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean

Currently dax_mapping_entry_mkclean() fails to clean and write protect
the pmd_t of a DAX PMD entry during an *sync operation.  This can result
in data loss in the following sequence:

1) mmap write to DAX PMD, dirtying PMD radix tree entry and making the
   pmd_t dirty and writeable
2) fsync, flushing out PMD data and cleaning the radix tree entry. We
   currently fail to mark the pmd_t as clean and write protected.
3) more mmap writes to the PMD.  These don't cause any page faults since
   the pmd_t is dirty and writeable.  The radix tree entry remains clean.
4) fsync, which fails to flush the dirty PMD data because the radix tree
   entry was clean.
5) crash - dirty data that should have been fsync'd as part of 4) could
   still have been in the processor cache, and is lost.

Fix this by marking the pmd_t clean and write protected in
dax_mapping_entry_mkclean(), which is called as part of the fsync
operation 2).  This will cause the writes in step 3) above to generate
page faults where we'll re-dirty the PMD radix tree entry, resulting in
flushes in the fsync that happens in step 4).

Fixes: 4b4bb46d00b3 ("dax: clear dirty entry tags on cache flush")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482272586-21177-3-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>