diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 2e40a44a1fae..2e2be527642a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2613,6 +2613,7 @@ enum mf_action_page_type {
 	MF_MSG_POISONED_HUGE,
 	MF_MSG_HUGE,
 	MF_MSG_FREE_HUGE,
+	MF_MSG_NON_PMD_HUGE,
 	MF_MSG_UNMAP_FAILED,
 	MF_MSG_DIRTY_SWAPCACHE,
 	MF_MSG_CLEAN_SWAPCACHE,
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 8291b75f42c8..2d4bf647cf01 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -502,6 +502,7 @@ static const char * const action_page_types[] = {
 	[MF_MSG_POISONED_HUGE]		= "huge page already hardware poisoned",
 	[MF_MSG_HUGE]			= "huge page",
 	[MF_MSG_FREE_HUGE]		= "free huge page",
+	[MF_MSG_NON_PMD_HUGE]		= "non-pmd-sized huge page",
 	[MF_MSG_UNMAP_FAILED]		= "unmapping failed page",
 	[MF_MSG_DIRTY_SWAPCACHE]	= "dirty swapcache page",
 	[MF_MSG_CLEAN_SWAPCACHE]	= "clean swapcache page",
@@ -1084,6 +1085,21 @@ static int memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * TODO: hwpoison for pud-sized hugetlb doesn't work right now, so
+	 * simply disable it. In order to make it work properly, we need
+	 * make sure that:
+	 *  - conversion of a pud that maps an error hugetlb into hwpoison
+	 *    entry properly works, and
+	 *  - other mm code walking over page table is aware of pud-aligned
+	 *    hwpoison entries.
+	 */
+	if (huge_page_size(page_hstate(head)) > PMD_SIZE) {
+		action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_NON_PMD_HUGE, MF_IGNORED);
+		res = -EBUSY;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (!hwpoison_user_mappings(p, pfn, flags, &head)) {
 		action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_UNMAP_FAILED, MF_IGNORED);
 		res = -EBUSY;