diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 77e64e3eac80..64a71bf20536 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1300,6 +1300,27 @@ static inline bool page_maybe_dma_pinned(struct page *page)
 		GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS;
 }
 
+static inline bool is_cow_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
+{
+	return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE;
+}
+
+/*
+ * This should most likely only be called during fork() to see whether we
+ * should break the cow immediately for a page on the src mm.
+ */
+static inline bool page_needs_cow_for_dma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					  struct page *page)
+{
+	if (!is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags))
+		return false;
+
+	if (!atomic_read(&vma->vm_mm->has_pinned))
+		return false;
+
+	return page_maybe_dma_pinned(page);
+}
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM) && !defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
 #define SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 395c75111d33..da1d63a41aec 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1100,9 +1100,7 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 	 * best effort that the pinned pages won't be replaced by another
 	 * random page during the coming copy-on-write.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags) &&
-		     atomic_read(&src_mm->has_pinned) &&
-		     page_maybe_dma_pinned(src_page))) {
+	if (unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, src_page))) {
 		pte_free(dst_mm, pgtable);
 		spin_unlock(src_ptl);
 		spin_unlock(dst_ptl);
@@ -1214,9 +1212,7 @@ int copy_huge_pud(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 	}
 
 	/* Please refer to comments in copy_huge_pmd() */
-	if (unlikely(is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags) &&
-		     atomic_read(&src_mm->has_pinned) &&
-		     page_maybe_dma_pinned(pud_page(pud)))) {
+	if (unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, pud_page(pud)))) {
 		spin_unlock(src_ptl);
 		spin_unlock(dst_ptl);
 		__split_huge_pud(vma, src_pud, addr);
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 9902648f2206..1432feec62df 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -296,11 +296,6 @@ static inline unsigned int buddy_order(struct page *page)
  */
 #define buddy_order_unsafe(page)	READ_ONCE(page_private(page))
 
-static inline bool is_cow_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
-{
-	return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE;
-}
-
 /*
  * These three helpers classifies VMAs for virtual memory accounting.
  */
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index c8e357627318..523230005db1 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -809,12 +809,8 @@ copy_present_page(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma
 		  pte_t *dst_pte, pte_t *src_pte, unsigned long addr, int *rss,
 		  struct page **prealloc, pte_t pte, struct page *page)
 {
-	struct mm_struct *src_mm = src_vma->vm_mm;
 	struct page *new_page;
 
-	if (!is_cow_mapping(src_vma->vm_flags))
-		return 1;
-
 	/*
 	 * What we want to do is to check whether this page may
 	 * have been pinned by the parent process.  If so,
@@ -828,9 +824,7 @@ copy_present_page(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma
 	 * the page count. That might give false positives for
 	 * for pinning, but it will work correctly.
 	 */
-	if (likely(!atomic_read(&src_mm->has_pinned)))
-		return 1;
-	if (likely(!page_maybe_dma_pinned(page)))
+	if (likely(!page_needs_cow_for_dma(src_vma, page)))
 		return 1;
 
 	new_page = *prealloc;