commit 42720138 upstream.

Writes were a bit racy, but hard to turn into a bug at the same time.
(Particularly because modern Linux doesn't use this feature anymore.)
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
[Actually the next patch makes it much, much easier to trigger the race
 so I'm including this one for stable@ as well. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>