diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index b9a254dcc0e7..d508c7844681 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -138,10 +138,14 @@ static int hugetlbfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 	/*
 	 * page based offset in vm_pgoff could be sufficiently large to
-	 * overflow a (l)off_t when converted to byte offset.
+	 * overflow a loff_t when converted to byte offset.  This can
+	 * only happen on architectures where sizeof(loff_t) ==
+	 * sizeof(unsigned long).  So, only check in those instances.
 	 */
-	if (vma->vm_pgoff & PGOFF_LOFFT_MAX)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (sizeof(unsigned long) == sizeof(loff_t)) {
+		if (vma->vm_pgoff & PGOFF_LOFFT_MAX)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	/* must be huge page aligned */
 	if (vma->vm_pgoff & (~huge_page_mask(h) >> PAGE_SHIFT))