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The 6.0 commits:

commit 9fec5168 ("mm: thp: kill transparent_hugepage_active()")
commit 7da4e2cb ("mm: thp: kill __transhuge_page_enabled()")

merged "can we have THPs in this VMA?" logic that was previously done
separately by fault-path, khugepaged, and smaps "THPeligible" checks.

During the process, the semantics of the fault path check changed in two
ways:

1) A VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED check was introduced (also added to smaps path).
2) We no longer checked if non-anonymous memory had a vm_ops->huge_fault
   handler that could satisfy the fault.  Previously, this check had been
   done in create_huge_pud() and create_huge_pmd() routines, but after
   the changes, we never reach those routines.

During the review of the above commits, it was determined that in-tree
users weren't affected by the change; most notably, since the only
relevant user (in terms of THP) of VM_MIXEDMAP or ->huge_fault is DAX,
which is explicitly approved early in approval logic.  However, this was a
bad assumption to make as it assumes the only reason to support
->huge_fault was for DAX (which is not true in general).

Remove the VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED check when not in collapse path and give any
->huge_fault handler a chance to handle the fault.  Note that we don't
validate the file mode or mapping alignment, which is consistent with the
behavior before the aforementioned commits.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230925200110.1979606-1-zokeefe@google.com
Fixes: 7da4e2cb

 ("mm: thp: kill __transhuge_page_enabled()")
Reported-by: Saurabh Singh Sengar <ssengar@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>