diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index e90a673be67e1eebb4c98ba30c198ede805dcb82..6b25758e028e06fc1e3d4db30a6cd88c175f3039 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -414,11 +414,26 @@ static inline int PageTransHuge(struct page *page)
 	return PageHead(page);
 }
 
+/*
+ * PageTransCompound returns true for both transparent huge pages
+ * and hugetlbfs pages, so it should only be called when it's known
+ * that hugetlbfs pages aren't involved.
+ */
 static inline int PageTransCompound(struct page *page)
 {
 	return PageCompound(page);
 }
 
+/*
+ * PageTransTail returns true for both transparent huge pages
+ * and hugetlbfs pages, so it should only be called when it's known
+ * that hugetlbfs pages aren't involved.
+ */
+static inline int PageTransTail(struct page *page)
+{
+	return PageTail(page);
+}
+
 #else
 
 static inline int PageTransHuge(struct page *page)
@@ -430,6 +445,11 @@ static inline int PageTransCompound(struct page *page)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
+
+static inline int PageTransTail(struct page *page)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 56080ea361406090860493861d5253dc314debc1..c22076ffdd44283a07a9a8f0fde2567654f44302 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags)
 	 * The check (unnecessarily) ignores LRU pages being isolated and
 	 * walked by the page reclaim code, however that's not a big loss.
 	 */
-	if (!PageHuge(p) && !PageTransCompound(p)) {
+	if (!PageHuge(p) && !PageTransTail(p)) {
 		if (!PageLRU(p))
 			shake_page(p, 0);
 		if (!PageLRU(p)) {