diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 0cf74df68617b8738342a5f7be7992ccc596bf0a..973c24ce59ad3ef1b62ff3ce00113d7d85cedb68 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -1010,6 +1010,8 @@ struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size,
 	inode = hugetlbfs_get_inode(sb, NULL, S_IFREG | S_IRWXUGO, 0);
 	if (!inode)
 		goto out_dentry;
+	if (creat_flags == HUGETLB_SHMFS_INODE)
+		inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
 
 	file = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	if (hugetlb_reserve_pages(inode, 0,
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 06e5cf2fe019faee43aa9f8ca9f17cad4973b74d..4aef24d91b633e12275cea64a380df4543fc796b 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static int newseg(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_params *params)
 		if  ((shmflg & SHM_NORESERVE) &&
 				sysctl_overcommit_memory != OVERCOMMIT_NEVER)
 			acctflag = VM_NORESERVE;
-		file = shmem_file_setup(name, size, acctflag);
+		file = shmem_kernel_file_setup(name, size, acctflag);
 	}
 	error = PTR_ERR(file);
 	if (IS_ERR(file))
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 4caf8ed24d6586e32ab910f28f945c01cef6373b..dbe0c1e8349c72ac569a58289da702a841104951 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3363,8 +3363,8 @@ static struct file *__shmem_file_setup(const char *name, loff_t size,
  * shmem_kernel_file_setup - get an unlinked file living in tmpfs which must be
  * 	kernel internal.  There will be NO LSM permission checks against the
  * 	underlying inode.  So users of this interface must do LSM checks at a
- * 	higher layer.  The one user is the big_key implementation.  LSM checks
- * 	are provided at the key level rather than the inode level.
+ *	higher layer.  The users are the big_key and shm implementations.  LSM
+ *	checks are provided at the key or shm level rather than the inode.
  * @name: name for dentry (to be seen in /proc/<pid>/maps
  * @size: size to be set for the file
  * @flags: VM_NORESERVE suppresses pre-accounting of the entire object size