diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index b9ce574827c8..36d6ea2b6340 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
 	if (!file)
 		return -EBADF;
 
+	/*
+	 * Page cache readahead assumes page cache pages are order-0 which
+	 * is not the case for hugetlbfs. Do not give a bad return value
+	 * but ignore the advice.
+	 */
+	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_mem) {
 		/* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
 		return 0;