diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
index 796c932..5d8324c 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -505,6 +505,9 @@
 	if (!pmd_present(*pmd) &&
 	    __pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, vmaddr))
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	/* large pmds cannot yet be handled */
+	if (pmd_large(*pmd))
+		return -EFAULT;
 	/* pmd now points to a valid segment table entry. */
 	rmap = kmalloc(sizeof(*rmap), GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
 	if (!rmap)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 6ac89e9..a2f4981 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1891,17 +1891,22 @@
 int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		     unsigned long *vm_flags, int advice)
 {
-	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-
 	switch (advice) {
 	case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
+#ifdef CONFIG_S390
+		/*
+		 * qemu blindly sets MADV_HUGEPAGE on all allocations, but s390
+		 * can't handle this properly after s390_enable_sie, so we simply
+		 * ignore the madvise to prevent qemu from causing a SIGSEGV.
+		 */
+		if (mm_has_pgste(vma->vm_mm))
+			return 0;
+#endif
 		/*
 		 * Be somewhat over-protective like KSM for now!
 		 */
 		if (*vm_flags & (VM_HUGEPAGE | VM_NO_THP))
 			return -EINVAL;
-		if (mm->def_flags & VM_NOHUGEPAGE)
-			return -EINVAL;
 		*vm_flags &= ~VM_NOHUGEPAGE;
 		*vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
 		/*