diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f260ffa..7dc80cb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1540,62 +1540,46 @@
 static struct page *__alloc_surplus_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		int nid, nodemask_t *nmask)
 {
-	struct page *page;
-	unsigned int r_nid;
+	struct page *page = NULL;
 
 	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
 		return NULL;
 
-	/*
-	 * Assume we will successfully allocate the surplus page to
-	 * prevent racing processes from causing the surplus to exceed
-	 * overcommit
-	 *
-	 * This however introduces a different race, where a process B
-	 * tries to grow the static hugepage pool while alloc_pages() is
-	 * called by process A. B will only examine the per-node
-	 * counters in determining if surplus huge pages can be
-	 * converted to normal huge pages in adjust_pool_surplus(). A
-	 * won't be able to increment the per-node counter, until the
-	 * lock is dropped by B, but B doesn't drop hugetlb_lock until
-	 * no more huge pages can be converted from surplus to normal
-	 * state (and doesn't try to convert again). Thus, we have a
-	 * case where a surplus huge page exists, the pool is grown, and
-	 * the surplus huge page still exists after, even though it
-	 * should just have been converted to a normal huge page. This
-	 * does not leak memory, though, as the hugepage will be freed
-	 * once it is out of use. It also does not allow the counters to
-	 * go out of whack in adjust_pool_surplus() as we don't modify
-	 * the node values until we've gotten the hugepage and only the
-	 * per-node value is checked there.
-	 */
 	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
-	if (h->surplus_huge_pages >= h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages) {
-		spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
-		return NULL;
-	} else {
-		h->nr_huge_pages++;
-		h->surplus_huge_pages++;
-	}
+	if (h->surplus_huge_pages >= h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages)
+		goto out_unlock;
 	spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
 
 	page = __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nid, nmask);
+	if (!page)
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
-	if (page) {
+	/*
+	 * We could have raced with the pool size change.
+	 * Double check that and simply deallocate the new page
+	 * if we would end up overcommiting the surpluses. Abuse
+	 * temporary page to workaround the nasty free_huge_page
+	 * codeflow
+	 */
+	if (h->surplus_huge_pages >= h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages) {
+		SetPageHugeTemporary(page);
+		put_page(page);
+		page = NULL;
+	} else {
+		int r_nid;
+
+		h->surplus_huge_pages++;
+		h->nr_huge_pages++;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
 		r_nid = page_to_nid(page);
 		set_compound_page_dtor(page, HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR);
 		set_hugetlb_cgroup(page, NULL);
-		/*
-		 * We incremented the global counters already
-		 */
 		h->nr_huge_pages_node[r_nid]++;
 		h->surplus_huge_pages_node[r_nid]++;
-	} else {
-		h->nr_huge_pages--;
-		h->surplus_huge_pages--;
 	}
+
+out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
 
 	return page;