diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 9e3fa71b1e18..ef6963b577fd 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -372,8 +372,10 @@ retry_locked:
 		spin_unlock(&resv->lock);
 
 		trg = kmalloc(sizeof(*trg), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!trg)
+		if (!trg) {
+			kfree(nrg);
 			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
 
 		spin_lock(&resv->lock);
 		list_add(&trg->link, &resv->region_cache);
@@ -483,8 +485,16 @@ static long region_del(struct resv_map *resv, long f, long t)
 retry:
 	spin_lock(&resv->lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(rg, trg, head, link) {
-		if (rg->to <= f)
+		/*
+		 * Skip regions before the range to be deleted.  file_region
+		 * ranges are normally of the form [from, to).  However, there
+		 * may be a "placeholder" entry in the map which is of the form
+		 * (from, to) with from == to.  Check for placeholder entries
+		 * at the beginning of the range to be deleted.
+		 */
+		if (rg->to <= f && (rg->to != rg->from || rg->to != f))
 			continue;
+
 		if (rg->from >= t)
 			break;