diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 7dcd34628f49..5e0c91f017f7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -2972,7 +2972,7 @@ static int direct_pte_prefetch_many(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	for (i = 0; i < ret; i++, gfn++, start++) {
 		mmu_set_spte(vcpu, slot, start, access, gfn,
 			     page_to_pfn(pages[i]), NULL);
-		put_page(pages[i]);
+		kvm_release_page_clean(pages[i]);
 	}
 
 	return 0;