diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 74310017296ee02317b79a2c28b25ef303fc7720..4baf12e534d19031d28ddc5eba5335f72de54099 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -732,7 +732,10 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 		if (prev) {
 			vma = prev;
 			next = vma->vm_next;
-			continue;
+			if (mpol_equal(vma_policy(vma), new_pol))
+				continue;
+			/* vma_merge() joined vma && vma->next, case 8 */
+			goto replace;
 		}
 		if (vma->vm_start != vmstart) {
 			err = split_vma(vma->vm_mm, vma, vmstart, 1);
@@ -744,6 +747,7 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 			if (err)
 				goto out;
 		}
+ replace:
 		err = vma_replace_policy(vma, new_pol);
 		if (err)
 			goto out;
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index fbad7b091090d12ba0b101815fdc8699b092ee0d..1edbaa3136c3c464cf648e569f2f98499f00642c 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ again:			remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end);
 		if (next->anon_vma)
 			anon_vma_merge(vma, next);
 		mm->map_count--;
-		vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next));
+		mpol_put(vma_policy(next));
 		kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, next);
 		/*
 		 * In mprotect's case 6 (see comments on vma_merge),