diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 2bef19cc1b98..af46aa88422b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -271,11 +271,16 @@ static bool access_error(bool is_write, bool is_exec, struct vm_area_struct *vma
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Check for a read fault.  This could be caused by a read on an
-	 * inaccessible page (i.e. PROT_NONE), or a Radix MMU execute-only page.
+	 * VM_READ, VM_WRITE and VM_EXEC all imply read permissions, as
+	 * defined in protection_map[].  Read faults can only be caused by
+	 * a PROT_NONE mapping, or with a PROT_EXEC-only mapping on Radix.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)))
+	if (unlikely(!vma_is_accessible(vma)))
 		return true;
+
+	if (unlikely(radix_enabled() && ((vma->vm_flags & VM_ACCESS_FLAGS) == VM_EXEC)))
+		return true;
+
 	/*
 	 * We should ideally do the vma pkey access check here. But in the
 	 * fault path, handle_mm_fault() also does the same check. To avoid