diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index b5c109703daa..21c20fd5f9ee 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -735,9 +735,10 @@ static long hugetlbfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
 
 		mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
 
+		set_page_huge_active(page);
 		/*
 		 * unlock_page because locked by add_to_page_cache()
-		 * page_put due to reference from alloc_huge_page()
+		 * put_page() due to reference from alloc_huge_page()
 		 */
 		unlock_page(page);
 		put_page(page);
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index ebca2ef02212..b5807f23caf8 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -770,6 +770,8 @@ static inline void huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 }
 #endif
 
+void set_page_huge_active(struct page *page);
+
 #else	/* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
 struct hstate {};
 
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 9a3f06cdcc2a..fc65d64e1b82 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ bool page_huge_active(struct page *page)
 }
 
 /* never called for tail page */
-static void set_page_huge_active(struct page *page)
+void set_page_huge_active(struct page *page)
 {
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHeadHuge(page), page);
 	SetPagePrivate(&page[1]);