diff --git a/man2/memfd_create.2 b/man2/memfd_create.2
index 2060b18b2..73a501d6c 100644
--- a/man2/memfd_create.2
+++ b/man2/memfd_create.2
@@ -107,14 +107,14 @@ huge pages.
 See the Linux kernel source file
 .I Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
 for more information about hugetlbfs.
-The hugetlbfs filesystem does not support file-sealing operations.
-Therefore, specifying both
+.\" commit 47b9012ecdc747f6936395265e677d41e11a31ff
+Specifying both
 .B MFD_HUGETLB
 and
 .B MFD_ALLOW_SEALING
 in
 .I flags
-is disallowed.
+is supported since Linux 4.16.
 .TP
 .BR MFD_HUGE_2MB ", " MFD_HUGE_1GB ", " "..."
 Used in conjunction with