diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index f84ac3fb581b..de9b4d8eb853 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1016,8 +1016,16 @@ static void numa_migrate_preferred(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	/* Success if task is already running on preferred CPU */
 	p->numa_migrate_retry = 0;
-	if (cpu_to_node(task_cpu(p)) == p->numa_preferred_nid)
+	if (cpu_to_node(task_cpu(p)) == p->numa_preferred_nid) {
+		/*
+		 * If migration is temporarily disabled due to a task migration
+		 * then re-enable it now as the task is running on its
+		 * preferred node and memory should migrate locally
+		 */
+		if (!p->numa_migrate_seq)
+			p->numa_migrate_seq++;
 		return;
+	}
 
 	/* This task has no NUMA fault statistics yet */
 	if (unlikely(p->numa_preferred_nid == -1))