diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c
index 624663a94808..0c86133ad33f 100644
--- a/mm/secretmem.c
+++ b/mm/secretmem.c
@@ -82,13 +82,13 @@ retry:
 		__SetPageUptodate(page);
 		err = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, offset, gfp);
 		if (unlikely(err)) {
-			put_page(page);
 			/*
 			 * If a split of large page was required, it
 			 * already happened when we marked the page invalid
 			 * which guarantees that this call won't fail
 			 */
 			set_direct_map_default_noflush(page);
+			put_page(page);
 			if (err == -EEXIST)
 				goto retry;