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diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index b70919ce4f7..4f318642fbb 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -171,7 +171,12 @@ static long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_GET;
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
+ /*
+ * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
+ * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
+ * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
+ */
+ if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE)
gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
/* We don't try to access the guard page of a stack vma */