diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/platform_gk20a_tegra.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/platform_gk20a_tegra.c
index 952a7ed1e..3e1c69961 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/platform_gk20a_tegra.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/linux/platform_gk20a_tegra.c
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ static int gk20a_tegra_secure_alloc(struct gk20a *g,
 	int err = 0;
 	size_t aligned_size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
 
+	if (nvgpu_mem_is_valid(&desc->mem))
+		return 0;
+
 	/* We ran out of preallocated memory */
 	if (secure_buffer->used + aligned_size > secure_buffer->size) {
 		nvgpu_err(platform->g, "failed to alloc %zu bytes of VPR, %zu/%zu used",
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gr_gk20a.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gr_gk20a.c
index 8db6b42f4..7160ab6fa 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gr_gk20a.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gr_gk20a.c
@@ -2482,6 +2482,11 @@ static int gk20a_gr_alloc_ctx_buffer(struct gk20a *g,
 {
 	int err = 0;
 
+	nvgpu_log_fn(g, " ");
+
+	if (nvgpu_mem_is_valid(&desc->mem))
+		return 0;
+
 	err = nvgpu_dma_alloc_flags_sys(g, NVGPU_DMA_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING,
 				    size, &desc->mem);
 	if (err)