diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
index dfdb90cb44039..9f1983404e1a8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
@@ -113,7 +113,12 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(MMU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT)
 	b	slb_finish_load_1T
 
-0:
+0:	/*
+	 * For userspace addresses, make sure this is region 0.
+	 */
+	cmpdi	r9, 0
+	bne	8f
+
 	/* when using slices, we extract the psize off the slice bitmaps
 	 * and then we need to get the sllp encoding off the mmu_psize_defs
 	 * array.