diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index ee653dd4eb27..c5ac9bd87b99 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2005,22 +2005,13 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	if (ret != 1)
 		return ret;
 
-	ret = 0;
-
 	ret = kvm_s2_fault_compute_prot(fault);
-	if (ret == 1) {
-		ret = 1; /* fault injected */
-		goto out_put_page;
+	if (ret) {
+		kvm_release_page_unused(fault->page);
+		return ret;
 	}
-	if (ret)
-		goto out_put_page;
 
-	ret = kvm_s2_fault_map(fault, memcache);
-	return ret;
-
-out_put_page:
-	kvm_release_page_unused(fault->page);
-	return ret;
+	return kvm_s2_fault_map(fault, memcache);
 }
 
 /* Resolve the access fault by making the page young again. */