diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 3b099f32b9487a054db420509ad25591ea0d06eb..57c486f0e896c71056fcd139a6b3e1faec925ba0 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -22,12 +22,21 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	pud_t *pud;
-	pmd_t *pmd = NULL;
+	pmd_t *pmd;
+	pte_t *pte = NULL;
 
 	pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
 	pud = pud_alloc(mm, pgd, addr);
 	pmd = pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
-	return (pte_t *) pmd;
+
+	if (!pmd)
+		goto out;
+
+	pte = (pte_t *) pmd;
+	if (!pte_none(*pte) && !pte_huge(*pte))
+		hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(pte);
+out:
+	return pte;
 }
 
 pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 6bf720bc662c41983c1208e2aef409d4e0a276ac..901ac523a1c39fc17cc15d626ffb9cc8aa7f083d 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -360,8 +360,6 @@ int hugetlb_prefault(struct address_space *mapping, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		if (! pte_none(*pte))
-			hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(pte);
 
 		idx = ((addr - vma->vm_start) >> HPAGE_SHIFT)
 			+ (vma->vm_pgoff >> (HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT));