diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index d289fee1ffb..6f85fe0bf95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2497,8 +2497,7 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (!is_error_pfn(pfn))
-		kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
+	kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
 }
 
 static void nonpaging_new_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index c353b4599ce..a65bc02a375 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1322,9 +1322,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_release_page_clean);
 
 void kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn_t pfn)
 {
-	WARN_ON(is_error_pfn(pfn));
-
-	if (!kvm_is_mmio_pfn(pfn))
+	if (!is_error_pfn(pfn) && !kvm_is_mmio_pfn(pfn))
 		put_page(pfn_to_page(pfn));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_release_pfn_clean);