diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index fdaea3422c30..94ac360afe79 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -474,12 +474,13 @@ static int kvm_gmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	if (!kvm_gmem_supports_mmap(file_inode(file)))
 		return -ENODEV;
-
+	
 	if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE)) !=
 	    (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE)) {
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	vm_flags_set(vma, VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED);
 	vma->vm_ops = &kvm_gmem_vm_ops;
 
 	return 0;