diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 46f6ea47d9ab36a263fea674c99045fd0cd80c5a..cff97960f1d795172d142275f5dcb21f463a84d2 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ static void free_section_usemap(struct page *memmap, unsigned long *usemap)
 	/*
 	 * Check to see if allocation came from hot-plug-add
 	 */
-	if (PageSlab(usemap_page)) {
+	if (PageSlab(usemap_page) || PageCompound(usemap_page)) {
 		kfree(usemap);
 		if (memmap)
 			__kfree_section_memmap(memmap, PAGES_PER_SECTION);