diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/omap/omap_vout.c b/drivers/media/platform/omap/omap_vout.c
index dade3ceab092..96c4a17e4280 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/omap/omap_vout.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/omap/omap_vout.c
@@ -205,19 +205,21 @@ static u32 omap_vout_uservirt_to_phys(u32 virtp)
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 
-	vma = find_vma(mm, virtp);
 	/* For kernel direct-mapped memory, take the easy way */
-	if (virtp >= PAGE_OFFSET) {
-		physp = virt_to_phys((void *) virtp);
-	} else if (vma && (vma->vm_flags & VM_IO) && vma->vm_pgoff) {
+	if (virtp >= PAGE_OFFSET)
+		return virt_to_phys((void *) virtp);
+
+	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+	vma = find_vma(mm, virtp);
+	if (vma && (vma->vm_flags & VM_IO) && vma->vm_pgoff) {
 		/* this will catch, kernel-allocated, mmaped-to-usermode
 		   addresses */
 		physp = (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) + (virtp - vma->vm_start);
+		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 	} else {
 		/* otherwise, use get_user_pages() for general userland pages */
 		int res, nr_pages = 1;
 		struct page *pages;
-		down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 
 		res = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, virtp, nr_pages, 1,
 				0, &pages, NULL);