diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index af0721364788..6bee6f988912 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
 #define MMF_HAS_UPROBES		19	/* has uprobes */
 #define MMF_RECALC_UPROBES	20	/* MMF_HAS_UPROBES can be wrong */
 #define MMF_OOM_SKIP		21	/* mm is of no interest for the OOM killer */
+#define MMF_UNSTABLE		22	/* mm is unstable for copy_from_user */
 
 #define MMF_INIT_MASK		(MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK)
 
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f1a68049edff..4bfc3a9c3b18 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3658,6 +3658,19 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
                         mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(false);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * This mm has been already reaped by the oom reaper and so the
+	 * refault cannot be trusted in general. Anonymous refaults would
+	 * lose data and give a zero page instead e.g. This is especially
+	 * problem for use_mm() because regular tasks will just die and
+	 * the corrupted data will not be visible anywhere while kthread
+	 * will outlive the oom victim and potentially propagate the date
+	 * further.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely((current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && !(ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR)
+				&& test_bit(MMF_UNSTABLE, &vma->vm_mm->flags)))
+		ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(handle_mm_fault);
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 3b990544db6d..5a3ba96c8338 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -495,6 +495,14 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 		goto unlock_oom;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Tell all users of get_user/copy_from_user etc... that the content
+	 * is no longer stable. No barriers really needed because unmapping
+	 * should imply barriers already and the reader would hit a page fault
+	 * if it stumbled over a reaped memory.
+	 */
+	set_bit(MMF_UNSTABLE, &mm->flags);
+
 	tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, 0, -1);
 	for (vma = mm->mmap ; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
 		if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))