diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 2110a81c5e2afaab47ec5cb107cf17503d731317..34066ffd893d733b8134da1b57915bec314afb48 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@
 #define POISON_FREE	0x6b	/* for use-after-free poisoning */
 #define	POISON_END	0xa5	/* end-byte of poisoning */
 
+/********** mm/hugetlb.c **********/
+/*
+ * Private mappings of hugetlb pages use this poisoned value for
+ * page->mapping. The core VM should not be doing anything with this mapping
+ * but futex requires the existence of some page->mapping value even though it
+ * is unused if PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is set.
+ */
+#define HUGETLB_POISON	((void *)(0x00300300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON))
+
 /********** arch/$ARCH/mm/init.c **********/
 #define POISON_FREE_INITMEM	0xcc
 
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 6034dc9e97967e122dff8987148b8897904ec2d5..ffbdfc86aedf7120b0b62f20016cc738366b92f3 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ static void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
 
 	mapping = (struct address_space *) page_private(page);
 	set_page_private(page, 0);
+	page->mapping = NULL;
 	BUG_ON(page_count(page));
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
 
@@ -2447,8 +2448,10 @@ static int hugetlb_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 			inode->i_blocks += blocks_per_huge_page(h);
 			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
-		} else
+		} else {
 			lock_page(page);
+			page->mapping = HUGETLB_POISON;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*