diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7d608765932b99..feff48e1465a6e 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2892,11 +2892,13 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 		entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
 		entry = pte_sw_mkyoung(entry);
 		entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+
 		/*
 		 * Clear the pte entry and flush it first, before updating the
-		 * pte with the new entry. This will avoid a race condition
-		 * seen in the presence of one thread doing SMC and another
-		 * thread doing COW.
+		 * pte with the new entry, to keep TLBs on different CPUs in
+		 * sync. This code used to set the new PTE then flush TLBs, but
+		 * that left a window where the new PTE could be loaded into
+		 * some TLBs while the old PTE remains in others.
 		 */
 		ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
 		page_add_new_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, vmf->address, false);