diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a480affd475b..fb7a531fce71 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1769,13 +1769,6 @@ static void __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Move PageHWPoison flag from head page to the raw error pages,
-	 * which makes any healthy subpages reusable.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(folio_test_hwpoison(folio)))
-		folio_clear_hugetlb_hwpoison(folio);
-
 	/*
 	 * If vmemmap pages were allocated above, then we need to clear the
 	 * hugetlb destructor under the hugetlb lock.
@@ -1786,6 +1779,13 @@ static void __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
 		spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Move PageHWPoison flag from head page to the raw error pages,
+	 * which makes any healthy subpages reusable.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(folio_test_hwpoison(folio)))
+		folio_clear_hugetlb_hwpoison(folio);
+
 	/*
 	 * Non-gigantic pages demoted from CMA allocated gigantic pages
 	 * need to be given back to CMA in free_gigantic_folio.