diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 28a64e769527..2b72d26e2e4b 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ static unsigned long vma_dump_size(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (always_dump_vma(vma))
 		goto whole;
 
-	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_NODUMP)
+	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_DONTDUMP)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Hugetlb memory check */
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 25ef49c1f2bd..dc08d558e058 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #define VM_HUGETLB	0x00400000	/* Huge TLB Page VM */
 #define VM_NONLINEAR	0x00800000	/* Is non-linear (remap_file_pages) */
 #define VM_ARCH_1	0x01000000	/* Architecture-specific flag */
-#define VM_NODUMP	0x04000000	/* Do not include in the core dump */
+#define VM_DONTDUMP	0x04000000	/* Do not include in the core dump */
 
 #define VM_MIXEDMAP	0x10000000	/* Can contain "struct page" and pure PFN pages */
 #define VM_HUGEPAGE	0x20000000	/* MADV_HUGEPAGE marked this vma */
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 14d260fa0d17..03dfa5c7adb3 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -69,10 +69,14 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
 		new_flags &= ~VM_DONTCOPY;
 		break;
 	case MADV_DONTDUMP:
-		new_flags |= VM_NODUMP;
+		new_flags |= VM_DONTDUMP;
 		break;
 	case MADV_DODUMP:
-		new_flags &= ~VM_NODUMP;
+		if (new_flags & VM_SPECIAL) {
+			error = -EINVAL;
+			goto out;
+		}
+		new_flags &= ~VM_DONTDUMP;
 		break;
 	case MADV_MERGEABLE:
 	case MADV_UNMERGEABLE: