diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index ca38939..1a3dd59 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -837,9 +837,6 @@
 		if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
 			goto restart;
 
-		if (page->mapping == NULL || page->index != index)
-			break;
-
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
 			goto repeat;
 
@@ -849,6 +846,16 @@
 			goto repeat;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * must check mapping and index after taking the ref.
+		 * otherwise we can get both false positives and false
+		 * negatives, which is just confusing to the caller.
+		 */
+		if (page->mapping == NULL || page->index != index) {
+			page_cache_release(page);
+			break;
+		}
+
 		pages[ret] = page;
 		ret++;
 		index++;