diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index b1723094d464cf..d3e0f5b3ecc74d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -431,10 +431,16 @@ static int ___do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 	/*
 	 * The kernel should never take an execute fault nor should it
 	 * take a page fault to a kernel address or a page fault to a user
-	 * address outside of dedicated places
+	 * address outside of dedicated places.
+	 *
+	 * Rather than kfence directly reporting false negatives, search whether
+	 * the NIP belongs to the fixup table for cases where fault could come
+	 * from functions like copy_from_kernel_nofault().
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!is_user && bad_kernel_fault(regs, error_code, address, is_write))) {
-		if (kfence_handle_page_fault(address, is_write, regs))
+		if (is_kfence_address((void *)address) &&
+		    !search_exception_tables(instruction_pointer(regs)) &&
+		    kfence_handle_page_fault(address, is_write, regs))
 			return 0;
 
 		return SIGSEGV;