diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index f54b235f29a9..35730ee9d515 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2886,7 +2886,7 @@ static void vm_lock_anon_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
 		 * The LSB of head.next can't change from under us
 		 * because we hold the mm_all_locks_mutex.
 		 */
-		down_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem);
+		down_write_nest_lock(&anon_vma->root->rwsem, &mm->mmap_sem);
 		/*
 		 * We can safely modify head.next after taking the
 		 * anon_vma->root->rwsem. If some other vma in this mm shares