diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/sthyi.c b/arch/s390/kvm/sthyi.c
index c10ffd94f93c..2f04ad1ea01c 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/sthyi.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/sthyi.c
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ int handle_sthyi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	VCPU_EVENT(vcpu, 3, "STHYI: fc: %llu addr: 0x%016llx", code, addr);
 	trace_kvm_s390_handle_sthyi(vcpu, code, addr);
 
-	if (reg1 == reg2 || reg1 & 1 || reg2 & 1 || addr & ~PAGE_MASK)
+	if (reg1 == reg2 || reg1 & 1 || reg2 & 1)
 		return kvm_s390_inject_program_int(vcpu, PGM_SPECIFICATION);
 
 	if (code & 0xffff) {
@@ -430,6 +430,9 @@ int handle_sthyi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK)
+		return kvm_s390_inject_program_int(vcpu, PGM_SPECIFICATION);
+
 	/*
 	 * If the page has not yet been faulted in, we want to do that
 	 * now and not after all the expensive calculations.