diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index e9bb6db002aa..128b17fe9812 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -231,7 +231,10 @@ static int mcontinue_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
 	struct page *page;
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = shmem_getpage(inode, pgoff, &page, SGP_READ);
+	ret = shmem_getpage(inode, pgoff, &page, SGP_NOALLOC);
+	/* Our caller expects us to return -EFAULT if we failed to find page. */
+	if (ret == -ENOENT)
+		ret = -EFAULT;
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 	if (!page) {