diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c3bc5fb876f10dab356209f224b1847bd3d8b052..f271929abeabc1fc8da1c8557551e891f722489c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4960,7 +4960,7 @@ unsigned long __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
 	 * Skip populated array elements to determine if any pages need
 	 * to be allocated before disabling IRQs.
 	 */
-	while (page_array && page_array[nr_populated] && nr_populated < nr_pages)
+	while (page_array && nr_populated < nr_pages && page_array[nr_populated])
 		nr_populated++;
 
 	/* Use the single page allocator for one page. */