diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 4f026f877fc1..6387917d08ec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -9878,6 +9878,13 @@ int kvm_arch_create_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 {
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * Clear out the previous array pointers for the KVM_MR_MOVE case.  The
+	 * old arrays will be freed by __kvm_set_memory_region() if installing
+	 * the new memslot is successful.
+	 */
+	memset(&slot->arch, 0, sizeof(slot->arch));
+
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES; ++i) {
 		struct kvm_lpage_info *linfo;
 		unsigned long ugfn;
@@ -9959,6 +9966,10 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 				const struct kvm_userspace_memory_region *mem,
 				enum kvm_mr_change change)
 {
+	if (change == KVM_MR_MOVE)
+		return kvm_arch_create_memslot(kvm, memslot,
+					       mem->memory_size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
 	return 0;
 }