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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 122d965e820f..f594bb65a9f1 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1264,9 +1264,15 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
* do_wp_page has broken COW when necessary,
* even if maybe_mkwrite decided not to set
* pte_write. We can thus safely do subsequent
- * page lookups as if they were reads.
+ * page lookups as if they were reads. But only
+ * do so when looping for pte_write is futile:
+ * in some cases userspace may also be wanting
+ * to write to the gotten user page, which a
+ * read fault here might prevent (a readonly
+ * page might get reCOWed by userspace write).
*/
- if (ret & VM_FAULT_WRITE)
+ if ((ret & VM_FAULT_WRITE) &&
+ !(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
foll_flags &= ~FOLL_WRITE;
cond_resched();