diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
index c742de1769d1..b9d5253c1305 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ Testing
   unpoison-pfn
 	Software-unpoison page at PFN echoed into this file. This way
 	a page can be reused again.  This only works for Linux
-	injected failures, not for real memory failures.
+	injected failures, not for real memory failures. Once any hardware
+	memory failure happens, this feature is disabled.
 
   Note these injection interfaces are not stable and might change between
   kernel versions
diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 084d67fd55cc..bc60c9cd3230 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ static ssize_t hard_offline_page_store(struct device *dev,
 	if (kstrtoull(buf, 0, &pfn) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	pfn >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
-	ret = memory_failure(pfn, 0);
+	ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_SW_SIMULATED);
 	if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
 		ret = 0;
 	return ret ? ret : count;
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 781fae17177d..cf3d0d673f6b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3232,6 +3232,7 @@ enum mf_flags {
 	MF_MUST_KILL = 1 << 2,
 	MF_SOFT_OFFLINE = 1 << 3,
 	MF_UNPOISON = 1 << 4,
+	MF_SW_SIMULATED = 1 << 5,
 };
 extern int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
 extern void memory_failure_queue(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
diff --git a/mm/hwpoison-inject.c b/mm/hwpoison-inject.c
index 5c0cddd81505..65e242b5a432 100644
--- a/mm/hwpoison-inject.c
+++ b/mm/hwpoison-inject.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static int hwpoison_inject(void *data, u64 val)
 
 inject:
 	pr_info("Injecting memory failure at pfn %#lx\n", pfn);
-	err = memory_failure(pfn, 0);
+	err = memory_failure(pfn, MF_SW_SIMULATED);
 	return (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) ? 0 : err;
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index d7b4f2602949..0316bbc6441b 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
 		} else {
 			pr_info("Injecting memory failure for pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n",
 				 pfn, start);
-			ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
+			ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED);
 			if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
 				ret = 0;
 		}
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index b85661cbdc4a..da39ec8afca8 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ int sysctl_memory_failure_recovery __read_mostly = 1;
 
 atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
 
+static bool hw_memory_failure __read_mostly = false;
+
 static bool __page_handle_poison(struct page *page)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -1768,6 +1770,9 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 
 	mutex_lock(&mf_mutex);
 
+	if (!(flags & MF_SW_SIMULATED))
+		hw_memory_failure = true;
+
 	p = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
 	if (!p) {
 		res = arch_memory_failure(pfn, flags);
@@ -2103,6 +2108,13 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
 
 	mutex_lock(&mf_mutex);
 
+	if (hw_memory_failure) {
+		unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Disabled after HW memory failure %#lx\n",
+				 pfn, &unpoison_rs);
+		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto unlock_mutex;
+	}
+
 	if (!PageHWPoison(p)) {
 		unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Page was already unpoisoned %#lx\n",
 				 pfn, &unpoison_rs);