diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
index 3b0948ad449f..8e4bf5365ac6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ static void parse_gb_huge_pages(char *param, char *val)
 
 	if (!strcmp(param, "hugepages") && gbpage_sz) {
 		p = val;
-		max_gb_huge_pages = simple_strtoull(p, &p, 0);
+		if (boot_kstrtoul(p, 0, &max_gb_huge_pages))
+			warn("Failed to parse hugepages= boot parameter\n");
 		return;
 	}
 }