diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 5e03b2f67b932dcb37d61ed3dbbffb6576141cff..4ee3f006b861940f6d27c2b09711504498d59607 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ hugetlb_vmtruncate_list(struct prio_tree_root *root, unsigned long h_pgoff)
 		if (h_vm_pgoff >= h_pgoff)
 			v_offset = 0;
 
-		unmap_hugepage_range(vma,
+		__unmap_hugepage_range(vma,
 				vma->vm_start + v_offset, vma->vm_end);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index c25a38d8f600df00e8f852572d20b266c8cc7a40..5081d27bfa27ac22979dd4a2ad7a865b81701893 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ int hugetlb_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *, void __user *
 int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *, struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *, struct page **, struct vm_area_struct **, unsigned long *, int *, int);
 void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
+void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
 int hugetlb_prefault(struct address_space *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 int hugetlb_report_meminfo(char *);
 int hugetlb_report_node_meminfo(int, char *);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 1d709ff528e1e91cd9bbbf086f119c5d4ba3154a..2dbec90dc3bad98cab038db4513f566360e8de8d 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -356,8 +356,8 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
-void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
-			  unsigned long end)
+void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+			    unsigned long end)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	unsigned long address;
@@ -398,6 +398,24 @@ void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 	}
 }
 
+void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+			  unsigned long end)
+{
+	/*
+	 * It is undesirable to test vma->vm_file as it should be non-null
+	 * for valid hugetlb area. However, vm_file will be NULL in the error
+	 * cleanup path of do_mmap_pgoff. When hugetlbfs ->mmap method fails,
+	 * do_mmap_pgoff() nullifies vma->vm_file before calling this function
+	 * to clean up. Since no pte has actually been setup, it is safe to
+	 * do nothing in this case.
+	 */
+	if (vma->vm_file) {
+		spin_lock(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_lock);
+		__unmap_hugepage_range(vma, start, end);
+		spin_unlock(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_lock);
+	}
+}
+
 static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 {