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Staring at the comment "Recheck VMA as permissions can change since
migration started" in remove_migration_pte() can result in confusion,
because if the source PTE/PMD indicates write permissions, then there
should be no need to check VMA write permissions when restoring migration
entries or PTE-mapping a PMD.

Commit d3cb8bf6 ("mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion
and mprotect") introduced the maybe_mkwrite() handling in
remove_migration_pte() in 2014, stating that a race between mprotect() and
migration finishing would be possible, and that we could end up with a
writable PTE that should be readable.

However, mprotect() code first updates vma->vm_flags / vma->vm_page_prot
and then walks the page tables to (a) set all present writable PTEs to
read-only and (b) convert all writable migration entries to readable
migration entries.  While walking the page tables and modifying the
entries, migration code has...