diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index b80de520670b..4d34356fe644 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 extern void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struct page *oldpage,
 					struct page *newpage);
 
+extern void mem_cgroup_reset_owner(struct page *page);
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
 extern int do_swap_account;
 #endif
@@ -391,6 +392,10 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struct page *oldpage,
 				struct page *newpage)
 {
 }
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_reset_owner(struct page *page)
+{
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT */
 
 #if !defined(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) || !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 310544a379ae..1925ffbfb27f 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/wait.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
 #include <linux/rbtree.h>
 #include <linux/memory.h>
 #include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
@@ -1571,6 +1572,16 @@ struct page *ksm_does_need_to_copy(struct page *page,
 
 	new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address);
 	if (new_page) {
+		/*
+		 * The memcg-specific accounting when moving
+		 * pages around the LRU lists relies on the
+		 * page's owner (memcg) to be valid.  Usually,
+		 * pages are assigned to a new owner before
+		 * being put on the LRU list, but since this
+		 * is not the case here, the stale owner from
+		 * a previous allocation cycle must be reset.
+		 */
+		mem_cgroup_reset_owner(new_page);
 		copy_user_highpage(new_page, page, address, vma);
 
 		SetPageDirty(new_page);
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index d58bb5fa4403..c74102d6eb5a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3050,6 +3050,23 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_end(void)
 	batch->memcg = NULL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * A function for resetting pc->mem_cgroup for newly allocated pages.
+ * This function should be called if the newpage will be added to LRU
+ * before start accounting.
+ */
+void mem_cgroup_reset_owner(struct page *newpage)
+{
+	struct page_cgroup *pc;
+
+	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
+		return;
+
+	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(newpage);
+	VM_BUG_ON(PageCgroupUsed(pc));
+	pc->mem_cgroup = root_mem_cgroup;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
 /*
  * called after __delete_from_swap_cache() and drop "page" account.
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 89ea0854332e..fc391985899f 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -777,6 +777,8 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
 	if (!newpage)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	mem_cgroup_reset_owner(newpage);
+
 	if (page_count(page) == 1) {
 		/* page was freed from under us. So we are done. */
 		goto out;
diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index ea6b32d61873..470038a91873 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -300,6 +300,16 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 			new_page = alloc_page_vma(gfp_mask, vma, addr);
 			if (!new_page)
 				break;		/* Out of memory */
+			/*
+			 * The memcg-specific accounting when moving
+			 * pages around the LRU lists relies on the
+			 * page's owner (memcg) to be valid.  Usually,
+			 * pages are assigned to a new owner before
+			 * being put on the LRU list, but since this
+			 * is not the case here, the stale owner from
+			 * a previous allocation cycle must be reset.
+			 */
+			mem_cgroup_reset_owner(new_page);
 		}
 
 		/*