fuse: don't clear folio uptodate on writethrough errors

In the writethrough path (fuse_send_write_pages()), if the write to the
server failed or was a short write, the uptodate flag on the folios are
cleared.

As explained by Matthew in [1], this is dangerous because the folio may
be mapped into userspace. The mm code has the invariant that a
non-uptodate folio must never be visible to userspace (to avoid
potentially leaking confidental information to userspace) and has checks
in place for this that if violated can bring down the whole machine.

Practically speaking, the effect of this change for the fuse
writethrough error path is that if an application does a write and then
the server fails to persist the data or only services a short write, the
page cache folio keeps the data the application wrote instead of being
reverted to the server's contents on the next read. The failure is still
reported to the application synchronously through the short count /
error return of the write() syscall. Folios that were only partially
written are unaffected since they were never marked uptodate in the
first place (fuse_fill_write_page() only marks a folio as uptodate if
the whole folio was written to).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/ajtPMgO65FA1TXhi@casper.infradead.org/

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707220450.1200943-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

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