diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index ceb0c7f1932f2e..6a7f9cab4ddb71 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -936,6 +936,16 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
 				BUG_ON(!PageHWPoison(p));
 				return SWAP_FAIL;
 			}
+			/*
+			 * We pinned the head page for hwpoison handling,
+			 * now we split the thp and we are interested in
+			 * the hwpoisoned raw page, so move the refcount
+			 * to it.
+			 */
+			if (hpage != p) {
+				put_page(hpage);
+				get_page(p);
+			}
 			/* THP is split, so ppage should be the real poisoned page. */
 			ppage = p;
 		}