diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/fault.c b/arch/mips/mm/fault.c
index 6751ce9ede9e..f956ecbb8136 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/fault.c
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ out_of_memory:
 	 * We ran out of memory, call the OOM killer, and return the userspace
 	 * (which will retry the fault, or kill us if we got oom-killed).
 	 */
+	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	pagefault_out_of_memory();
 	return;