mm/huge_memory: don't ignore queried cachemode in vmf_insert_pfn_pud()

Patch series "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and
vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes", v3.

While working on improving vm_normal_page() and friends, I stumbled over
this issues: refcounted "normal" folios must not be marked using
pmd_special() / pud_special().  Otherwise, we're effectively telling the
system that these folios are no "normal", violating the rules we
documented for vm_normal_page().

Fortunately, there are not many pmd_special()/pud_special() users yet.  So
far there doesn't seem to be serious damage.

Tested using the ndctl tests ("ndctl:dax" suite).


This patch (of 3):

We set up the cache mode but ...  don't forward the updated pgprot to
insert_pfn_pud().

Only a problem on x86-64 PAT when mapping PFNs using PUDs that require a
special cachemode.

Fix it by using the proper pgprot where the cachemode was setup.

It is unclear in which configurations we would get the cachemode wrong:
through vfio seems possible.  Getting cachemodes wrong is usually ... 
bad.  As the fix is easy, let's backport it to stable.

Identified by code inspection.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250613092702.1943533-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250613092702.1943533-2-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 7b806d229ef1 ("mm: remove vmf_insert_pfn_xxx_prot() for huge page-table entries")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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