diff --git a/src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp b/src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp
index e0a403b26f8..641a1652bbd 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp
@@ -1590,10 +1590,13 @@ static char* reserve_shmated_memory (size_t bytes, char* requested_addr) {
   }
 
   // Now attach the shared segment.
-  // Note that I attach with SHM_RND - which means that the requested address is rounded down, if
-  // needed, to the next lowest segment boundary. Otherwise the attach would fail if the address
-  // were not a segment boundary.
-  char* const addr = (char*) shmat(shmid, requested_addr, SHM_RND);
+  // Note that we deliberately *don't* pass SHM_RND. The contract of os::attempt_reserve_memory_at() -
+  // which invokes this function with a request address != NULL - is to map at the specified address
+  // excactly, or to fail. If the caller passed us an address that is not usable (aka not a valid segment
+  // boundary), shmat should not round down the address, or think up a completely new one.
+  // (In places where this matters, e.g. when reserving the heap, we take care of passing segment-aligned
+  // addresses on Aix. See, e.g., ReservedHeapSpace.
+  char* const addr = (char*) shmat(shmid, requested_addr, 0);
   const int errno_shmat = errno;
 
   // (A) Right after shmat and before handing shmat errors delete the shm segment.
diff --git a/test/hotspot/gtest/runtime/test_os.cpp b/test/hotspot/gtest/runtime/test_os.cpp
index 9956956423c..be6e22f5f4e 100644
--- a/test/hotspot/gtest/runtime/test_os.cpp
+++ b/test/hotspot/gtest/runtime/test_os.cpp
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include "memory/allocation.hpp"
 #include "memory/resourceArea.hpp"
 #include "runtime/frame.inline.hpp"
+#include "runtime/globals.hpp"
 #include "runtime/os.inline.hpp"
 #include "runtime/thread.hpp"
 #include "runtime/threads.hpp"
@@ -948,6 +949,18 @@ TEST_VM(os, reserve_at_wish_address_shall_not_replace_mappings_largepages) {
   }
 }
 
+#ifdef AIX
+// On Aix, we should fail attach attempts not aligned to segment boundaries (256m)
+TEST_VM(os, aix_reserve_at_non_shmlba_aligned_address) {
+  if (Use64KPages && Use64KPagesThreshold == 0) {
+    char* p = os::attempt_reserve_memory_at((char*)0x1f00000, M);
+    ASSERT_EQ(p, nullptr); // should have failed
+    p = os::attempt_reserve_memory_at((char*)((64 * G) + M), M);
+    ASSERT_EQ(p, nullptr); // should have failed
+  }
+}
+#endif // AIX
+
 TEST_VM(os, vm_min_address) {
   size_t s = os::vm_min_address();
   ASSERT_GE(s, M);