diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index f8b0704968a1..9b8b0833100a 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ void __wake_up_sync_key(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, void
 void __wake_up_locked_sync_key(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, void *key);
 void __wake_up_locked(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, int nr);
 void __wake_up_sync(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode);
+void __wake_up_pollfree(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head);
 
 #define wake_up(x)			__wake_up(x, TASK_NORMAL, 1, NULL)
 #define wake_up_nr(x, nr)		__wake_up(x, TASK_NORMAL, nr, NULL)
@@ -235,6 +236,31 @@ void __wake_up_sync(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode);
 #define wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked(x, m)				\
 	__wake_up_locked_sync_key((x), TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, poll_to_key(m))
 
+/**
+ * wake_up_pollfree - signal that a polled waitqueue is going away
+ * @wq_head: the wait queue head
+ *
+ * In the very rare cases where a ->poll() implementation uses a waitqueue whose
+ * lifetime is tied to a task rather than to the 'struct file' being polled,
+ * this function must be called before the waitqueue is freed so that
+ * non-blocking polls (e.g. epoll) are notified that the queue is going away.
+ *
+ * The caller must also RCU-delay the freeing of the wait_queue_head, e.g. via
+ * an explicit synchronize_rcu() or call_rcu(), or via SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU.
+ */
+static inline void wake_up_pollfree(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head)
+{
+	/*
+	 * For performance reasons, we don't always take the queue lock here.
+	 * Therefore, we might race with someone removing the last entry from
+	 * the queue, and proceed while they still hold the queue lock.
+	 * However, rcu_read_lock() is required to be held in such cases, so we
+	 * can safely proceed with an RCU-delayed free.
+	 */
+	if (waitqueue_active(wq_head))
+		__wake_up_pollfree(wq_head);
+}
+
 #define ___wait_cond_timeout(condition)						\
 ({										\
 	bool __cond = (condition);						\
diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
index 21005b980a6b..a55642aa3f68 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -223,6 +223,13 @@ void __wake_up_sync(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_sync);	/* For internal use only */
 
+void __wake_up_pollfree(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head)
+{
+	__wake_up(wq_head, TASK_NORMAL, 0, poll_to_key(EPOLLHUP | POLLFREE));
+	/* POLLFREE must have cleared the queue. */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(waitqueue_active(wq_head));
+}
+
 /*
  * Note: we use "set_current_state()" _after_ the wait-queue add,
  * because we need a memory barrier there on SMP, so that any