diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index e07e27e846a..a9963ceddd6 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1176,7 +1176,15 @@ static inline unsigned interleave_nid(struct mempolicy *pol,
 	if (vma) {
 		unsigned long off;
 
-		off = vma->vm_pgoff;
+		/*
+		 * for small pages, there is no difference between
+		 * shift and PAGE_SHIFT, so the bit-shift is safe.
+		 * for huge pages, since vm_pgoff is in units of small
+		 * pages, we need to shift off the always 0 bits to get
+		 * a useful offset.
+		 */
+		BUG_ON(shift < PAGE_SHIFT);
+		off = vma->vm_pgoff >> (shift - PAGE_SHIFT);
 		off += (addr - vma->vm_start) >> shift;
 		return offset_il_node(pol, vma, off);
 	} else