diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index b45a95363a84..e0afd582ca01 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/swapops.h>
 #include <linux/jhash.h>
 #include <linux/numa.h>
+#include <linux/llist.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -1255,7 +1256,7 @@ static inline void ClearPageHugeTemporary(struct page *page)
 	page[2].mapping = NULL;
 }
 
-void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
+static void __free_huge_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	/*
 	 * Can't pass hstate in here because it is called from the
@@ -1318,6 +1319,54 @@ void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
 	spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * As free_huge_page() can be called from a non-task context, we have
+ * to defer the actual freeing in a workqueue to prevent potential
+ * hugetlb_lock deadlock.
+ *
+ * free_hpage_workfn() locklessly retrieves the linked list of pages to
+ * be freed and frees them one-by-one. As the page->mapping pointer is
+ * going to be cleared in __free_huge_page() anyway, it is reused as the
+ * llist_node structure of a lockless linked list of huge pages to be freed.
+ */
+static LLIST_HEAD(hpage_freelist);
+
+static void free_hpage_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct llist_node *node;
+	struct page *page;
+
+	node = llist_del_all(&hpage_freelist);
+
+	while (node) {
+		page = container_of((struct address_space **)node,
+				     struct page, mapping);
+		node = node->next;
+		__free_huge_page(page);
+	}
+}
+static DECLARE_WORK(free_hpage_work, free_hpage_workfn);
+
+void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Defer freeing if in non-task context to avoid hugetlb_lock deadlock.
+	 */
+	if (!in_task()) {
+		/*
+		 * Only call schedule_work() if hpage_freelist is previously
+		 * empty. Otherwise, schedule_work() had been called but the
+		 * workfn hasn't retrieved the list yet.
+		 */
+		if (llist_add((struct llist_node *)&page->mapping,
+			      &hpage_freelist))
+			schedule_work(&free_hpage_work);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	__free_huge_page(page);
+}
+
 static void prep_new_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page, int nid)
 {
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);