diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index e187454..b6c1ce3 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1162,7 +1162,12 @@
 		/* after clearing PageTail the gup refcount can be released */
 		smp_mb();
 
-		page_tail->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;
+		/*
+		 * retain hwpoison flag of the poisoned tail page:
+		 *   fix for the unsuitable process killed on Guest Machine(KVM)
+		 *   by the memory-failure.
+		 */
+		page_tail->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP | __PG_HWPOISON;
 		page_tail->flags |= (page->flags &
 				     ((1L << PG_referenced) |
 				      (1L << PG_swapbacked) |
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 1e9c30b..04158d6 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -854,6 +854,7 @@
 	int ret;
 	int kill = 1;
 	struct page *hpage = compound_head(p);
+	struct page *ppage;
 
 	if (PageReserved(p) || PageSlab(p))
 		return SWAP_SUCCESS;
@@ -894,6 +895,14 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * ppage: poisoned page
+	 *   if p is regular page(4k page)
+	 *        ppage == real poisoned page;
+	 *   else p is hugetlb or THP, ppage == head page.
+	 */
+	ppage = hpage;
+
 	if (PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
 		/*
 		 * Verify that this isn't a hugetlbfs head page, the check for
@@ -919,6 +928,8 @@
 				BUG_ON(!PageHWPoison(p));
 				return SWAP_FAIL;
 			}
+			/* THP is split, so ppage should be the real poisoned page. */
+			ppage = p;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -931,12 +942,18 @@
 	 * there's nothing that can be done.
 	 */
 	if (kill)
-		collect_procs(hpage, &tokill);
+		collect_procs(ppage, &tokill);
 
-	ret = try_to_unmap(hpage, ttu);
+	if (hpage != ppage)
+		lock_page_nosync(ppage);
+
+	ret = try_to_unmap(ppage, ttu);
 	if (ret != SWAP_SUCCESS)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "MCE %#lx: failed to unmap page (mapcount=%d)\n",
-				pfn, page_mapcount(hpage));
+				pfn, page_mapcount(ppage));
+
+	if (hpage != ppage)
+		unlock_page(ppage);
 
 	/*
 	 * Now that the dirty bit has been propagated to the
@@ -947,7 +964,7 @@
 	 * use a more force-full uncatchable kill to prevent
 	 * any accesses to the poisoned memory.
 	 */
-	kill_procs_ao(&tokill, !!PageDirty(hpage), trapno,
+	kill_procs_ao(&tokill, !!PageDirty(ppage), trapno,
 		      ret != SWAP_SUCCESS, p, pfn);
 
 	return ret;
@@ -1090,7 +1107,7 @@
 	 * For error on the tail page, we should set PG_hwpoison
 	 * on the head page to show that the hugepage is hwpoisoned
 	 */
-	if (PageTail(p) && TestSetPageHWPoison(hpage)) {
+	if (PageHuge(p) && PageTail(p) && TestSetPageHWPoison(hpage)) {
 		action_result(pfn, "hugepage already hardware poisoned",
 				IGNORED);
 		unlock_page(hpage);