diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a82c3104337e..cbc25826c9b0 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1484,6 +1484,7 @@ static void __destroy_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
 
 	for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		p = folio_page(folio, i);
+		p->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE;
 		p->mapping = NULL;
 		clear_compound_head(p);
 		if (!demote)
@@ -1702,8 +1703,6 @@ static void add_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h, struct folio *folio,
 static void __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
 						struct folio *folio)
 {
-	int i;
-	struct page *subpage;
 	bool clear_dtor = folio_test_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio);
 
 	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_runtime_supported())
@@ -1745,14 +1744,6 @@ static void __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
 		spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; i < pages_per_huge_page(h); i++) {
-		subpage = folio_page(folio, i);
-		subpage->flags &= ~(1 << PG_locked | 1 << PG_error |
-				1 << PG_referenced | 1 << PG_dirty |
-				1 << PG_active | 1 << PG_private |
-				1 << PG_writeback);
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Non-gigantic pages demoted from CMA allocated gigantic pages
 	 * need to be given back to CMA in free_gigantic_folio.