diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index cf511499e1e19623ec4f20f250a43059f15d0ea6..f06ee5a5558a412607f720009af49fe97ef700e1 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2645,6 +2645,7 @@ static int shared_policy_replace(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long start,
 	mpol_new = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mpol_new)
 		goto err_out;
+	atomic_set(&mpol_new->refcnt, 1);
 	goto restart;
 }