diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index e517238..d37b3b9 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1207,6 +1207,20 @@
 	return page;
 }
 
+/*
+ * alloc_huge_page()'s wrapper which simply returns the page if allocation
+ * succeeds, otherwise NULL. This function is called from new_vma_page(),
+ * where no ERR_VALUE is expected to be returned.
+ */
+struct page *alloc_huge_page_noerr(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+				unsigned long addr, int avoid_reserve)
+{
+	struct page *page = alloc_huge_page(vma, addr, avoid_reserve);
+	if (IS_ERR(page))
+		page = NULL;
+	return page;
+}
+
 int __weak alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
 {
 	struct huge_bootmem_page *m;