diff --git a/arch/loongarch/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/loongarch/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 41308429f446..58277fd9fb2f 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 				pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
 		}
 	}
-	return pmd_none(pmdp_get(pmd)) ? NULL : (pte_t *) pmd;
+
+	return (!pmd || pmd_none(pmdp_get(pmd))) ? NULL : (pte_t *) pmd;
 }
 
 int pmd_huge(pmd_t pmd)