diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index f7555fc25877435e13b65cbe597ae9bdb11c6528..1d622f276e3a2c0fba23d979d7ae18cf6a899f30 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -340,9 +340,28 @@ int handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason)
 	bool must_wait, return_to_userland;
 	long blocking_state;
 
-	BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
-
 	ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+
+	/*
+	 * We don't do userfault handling for the final child pid update.
+	 *
+	 * We also don't do userfault handling during
+	 * coredumping. hugetlbfs has the special
+	 * follow_hugetlb_page() to skip missing pages in the
+	 * FOLL_DUMP case, anon memory also checks for FOLL_DUMP with
+	 * the no_page_table() helper in follow_page_mask(), but the
+	 * shmem_vm_ops->fault method is invoked even during
+	 * coredumping without mmap_sem and it ends up here.
+	 */
+	if (current->flags & (PF_EXITING|PF_DUMPCORE))
+		goto out;
+
+	/*
+	 * Coredumping runs without mmap_sem so we can only check that
+	 * the mmap_sem is held, if PF_DUMPCORE was not set.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
+
 	ctx = vmf->vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx.ctx;
 	if (!ctx)
 		goto out;
@@ -360,12 +379,6 @@ int handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason)
 	if (unlikely(ACCESS_ONCE(ctx->released)))
 		goto out;
 
-	/*
-	 * We don't do userfault handling for the final child pid update.
-	 */
-	if (current->flags & PF_EXITING)
-		goto out;
-
 	/*
 	 * Check that we can return VM_FAULT_RETRY.
 	 *