diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 7ffc73ba220f..7a326d03087a 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -2005,6 +2005,10 @@ static unsigned long kvm_s390_next_dirty_cmma(struct kvm_memslots *slots,
 		ms = slots->memslots + slotidx;
 		ofs = 0;
 	}
+
+	if (cur_gfn < ms->base_gfn)
+		ofs = 0;
+
 	ofs = find_next_bit(kvm_second_dirty_bitmap(ms), ms->npages, ofs);
 	while ((slotidx > 0) && (ofs >= ms->npages)) {
 		slotidx--;